--- title: "Road Haulage and Warehousing Services" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED" published: "2026-03-02" --- # Road Haulage and Warehousing Services Buyer: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04ec65.json) ## Summary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited has announced the tender for "Road Haulage and Warehousing Services," aimed at enhancing logistics and material management operations across the United Kingdom. The tender process is currently in the "tender" stage with an expression of interest deadline set for 27 March 2026. The services required encompass round-the-clock warehousing and road transport solutions, facilitating the movement of various essential materials, from sleepers to abnormal loads. Additionally, the contract involves operating and managing nine Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs) to optimise the supply chain efficiently. This competitive flexible procurement procedure involves an initial Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PSQ) stage and subsequent evaluations based on a 50% technical and 50% commercial weighting. Business entities interested in participating will have the opportunity to attend a Procurement Launch Event on 17 March 2026. This tender offers substantial opportunities for growth, especially for businesses specialising in logistics, warehousing, and transportation. Companies with scalable and flexible operations can leverage this contract to expand their services and footprint within the UK. With a yearly road haulage expenditure of approximately £28 million, this opportunity is particularly attractive to entities equipped to manage large-scale transport operations, inventory management, and provide advanced technological solutions like Transport Management Systems. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as voluntary and community sector enterprises (VCSEs), are encouraged to apply, proving suitability for these operations. The potential for additional storage solutions and the necessity for adaptive management strategies provide further avenues for business development, appealing to organisations eager to establish themselves as key logistics partners for Network Rail. ## Notice Network Rail requires a 24/7 road haulage service to manage the collection, haulage and delivery (including loading and offloading) of materials by road, including, but not limited to: sleepers, short rail, rail ancillaries, aggregates (loose or bagged), switches & crossings, troughing, manufactured materials, and large and abnormal loads, including, but not limited to: locomotives, tampers, rolling stock and specialist switches and crossings to a specified location. The requirement over the previous two years has made ~35,000 individual journeys on a yearly basis covering the entire UK and ~100 international journeys utilising vehicles ranging in size from vans to large extendable flatbeds and cranes. Network Rail also has the requirement for warehousing management. This includes but is not limited to: physical and systemic receipt of stock; physical and systemic put-away of stock; management of stock to legislative and Network Rail defined specifications (i.e. Certificates of Conformity, COSHH, detonators); management of life-expired stock; physical perpetual inventory checks; physical and systemic pick of required materials; physical despatch and delivery of materials to defined delivery point; physical and systemic capture of material proof of delivery records; physical and systemic receipt and processing of requests for material return; physical and systemic receipt and processing of requests for material repair; physical collection of returned media (e.g. pallets, collars and cable drums); physical distribution and collection of repair materials to and from repair agents and systemic capture and processing of such material; provision of Customer Services Helpdesk; undertaking of certified racking inspection checks; collection of materials from some of Network Rail's Materials Suppliers and delivery to the RDCs; distribution of materials from supplier-operated Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs). Standard Operating Practices shall be developed by the successful supplier in conjunction with Network Rail. The scope of the proposed Contract covers combined services including the provision of a transport planning team to co-ordinate and manage all transport requests covering both the Road Haulage and Warehousing distribution requirements, proactively managing all haulage requirements and providing information to support the delivery of improvements in safety, value, and sustainability. The contract will also include combined system requirements including a Transport Management System, Web-Based Order Portal and a Customer Relations Management (CRM) System. Network Rail has a requirement to operate nine (9) RDCs which also forms part of the scope of this Contract. Supporting the geographical routes and regions with the supply of maintenance materials, this more localised supply chain is intended to make critical materials more accessible to the end user by being geographically closer to Minor Stocking Points (MSPs) and providing access 24/7 on an on-call basis when outside of core working hours. MSP regular deliveries schedules are required to be managed through the RDC(s) but the operation of the MSPs is outside of the scope of this Contract. Network Rail requires a supplier to manage and deliver a vehicle trunking service delivering materials throughout the RDC network. The trunk vehicles are currently managed centrally from the Coventry RDC. There are three vehicles that work to a set schedule. Stock for each RDC is marshalled in Coventry and delivered two or three times each week to every RDC. Stock picked at the receiving RDC is then loaded onto the same vehicle and backhauled to Coventry, marshalled, and delivered back out to fulfil customer demand at the MSPs. Trunking fulfils customer expectations on the basis that each MSP has a milk run schedule. Network Rail currently lease the 9 RDCs as detailed within the associated tender documents and the scope of the Contract includes the requirement to operate the leased buildings delivering a warehousing solution. As set out in the Contract, Network Rail requires the successful supplier to be flexible, with the possibility that RDC operations may grow or be downscaled over time. Any requirements for upscaling or downscaling shall be discussed with the successful supplier on a case-by-case basis. The value of stock, as of July 2025, within these RDCs is currently ~PS80m (SCO Network Rail owned), there is additional customer owned stock. From time to time, Network Rail may require additional storage locations to hold Stock which cannot be stored at existing Network Rail sites (being RDCs and any other Network Rail storage sites). The Supplier shall work with Network Rail to find such suitable additional storage locations, either at premises owned by the Supplier or another external location as required. Network Rail currently spends on average PS28m per year on road haulage services, and PS9m per year for warehousing services, with the expectation of this remaining broadly in line with the annual spend, with an element of flex due to demand. Further details are set out in the specification within Schedule 1 of the Contract. ### Lot Information Lot 1 Options: As part of this tender, Network Rail will require Potential Suppliers to provide pricing for the provision of additional third-party storage space to support the storage of fleet spares materials in accordance with paragraph 2.3, Schedule 1.2 of the NR1 contract. This won't be included as part of the evaluation process. Network Rail may or may not choose to include this requirement in the contract. This contract will be available to Network Rail, Great British Railways, DfT Operator Limited, and their subsidiaries, successor organisations and affiliates. Renewal: A 4 year Extension which can be used at the sole discretion of the contracting authority. ### Planning Information Site Visits 27/03/2025 including overview presentation. 11/04/2025, Deadline for Pre-Market Engagement including formal responses. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018335-2026 | | Notice type | UK4 - Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Framework | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Selective | | Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning, Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 2 Mar 2026 | | Submission deadline | 20 Mar 2026 | | Future notice date | 30 Sep 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Aug 2027 - 31 Aug 2031 | | Recurrence | 2034-01-01 | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £308,000,000 | | Lots value | £308,000,000 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Active | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South East London | | Postcode | SE1 8SW | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI45 Lambeth | | Local authority | Lambeth | | Electoral ward | Waterloo & South Bank | | Westminster constituency | Vauxhall and Camberwell Green | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 60 - Transport services (excl. Waste transport) - 63 - Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services ### Codes - 60100000 - Road transport services - 63120000 - Storage and warehousing services - 63122000 - Warehousing services - 63712000 - Support services for road transport ## Release History - 2 Mar 2026 at 11:13 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018335-2026 - 12 Mar 2025 at 16:58 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009087-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018335-2026 2nd March 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009087-2025 12th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents - https://www.networkrail.co.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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