--- title: "Network Rail National Risk Assessment Redesign" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED" published: "2026-07-16" --- # Network Rail National Risk Assessment Redesign Buyer: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06ccea.json) ## Summary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited is planning a procurement process for a new Risk Assessment Management System, under the title "Network Rail National Risk Assessment Redesign". The process is currently in the planning stage, focusing on preliminary market engagement. This initiative falls under the services category and is aimed at the utilities sector, specifically within IT services, software packages, and information systems, classified under CPV codes 48100000 and 72000000, among others. The procurement process is set to commence with a preliminary market engagement notice issued on 16th July 2026, with a due date of 31st August 2026. The potential contract period is from 1st June 2027 to 30th June 2033, with the location specified as the United Kingdom. This tender opportunity presents significant growth potential for businesses involved in providing digital platforms and IT services that cater to large-scale risk assessment management systems. Companies specialising in software development, IT consulting, and integrated software systems, particularly those that can offer robust digital solutions for risk assessment processes, will find this procurement advantageous. Given the emphasis on system modernisation, integration, and alignment with organisational safety strategies, both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs) are encouraged to engage in this opportunity to help shape future requirements and potentially partake in subsequent procurement phases. ## Notice Network Rail is undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand the market capabilities and potential costs for a new Risk Assessment System to support the consistent creation, management, assurance and use of risk assessments across the organisation. Our current system has approximately 650-700 risk assessments and 300 active users. The purpose of this notice is to gather information from the market on available technologies, system capabilities, delivery approaches and potential implementation models that could inform a future procurement. Network Rail is seeking insight from suppliers who can provide a digital risk assessment management platform capable of supporting a modernised risk assessment process aligned with the organisation's safety strategy. This engagement is exploratory and this notice does not pre-qualify suppliers or form part of any procurement. The objectives of this engagement are to: * Understand the maturity of systems available within the market * Identify potential suppliers capable of delivering a modern risk assessment management platform * Test assumptions regarding technical capability, system functionality and integration * Explore potential delivery models and implementation approaches * Inform the development of a future procurement strategy and specification Insights gathered will support Network Rail in shaping the requirements for a potential future system procurement. This engagement does not: * Prequalify or shortlist suppliers * Form part of any formal procurement process * Provide any advantage or disadvantage to participants. All information shared with suppliers will be shared with all supplier in any resulting procurement process. ### Planning Information Network Rail may be looking to tender this requirement in the near future, any potential tender event in relation to this requirement may be issued via the Network Rail procurement platform – BravoNR. If you wish to be invited to any potential tender opportunity in relation to this requirement then please refer to the link and instructions below which contains documents that provides detail on: • How to register an account for BravoNR 1. Follow the link - https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html 2. From the welcome screen, access the “View Current Opportunities” link and select “Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - Network Rail – National Risk Assessment Management System (RAMS) Replacement”. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/067262-2026 | | Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 16 Jul 2026 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 26 Oct 2026 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 May 2027 - 30 Jun 2033 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Planning | | 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 - 48 - Software package and information systems - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### Codes - 48000000 - Software package and information systems - 48100000 - Industry specific software package - 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ## Release History - 16 Jul 2026 at 12:24 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/067262-2026 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/067262-2026 16th July 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://networkrail.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html - 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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