Stale Pre-tender

Supply of Under Sleeper Pads

Details

Buyer: Network Rail
Topic: Railway materials
Published: 7 June 2025
Submission: 30 June 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This is a pre-market engagement exercise for the procurement of Under sleeper pads (USPs). Network Rail requires the following: Under sleeper pads (USPs) - USP is a resilient (often elastomeric) layer fixed to the underside of concrete sleepers during the casting process to provide vibration protection and/or preserve the ballast under the tracks and improve track stability. The contract dates entered below reference the deadline for the pre-market engagement exercise.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published7 June 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Network Rail runs a safe, efficient railway, and buys as a central public body split between a national Route Services team and its regional routes. Network Rail's latest spend reporting covers Control Period 7, the 2024-25 financial year.

Safety-critical work needs audited status on RISQS, the rail industry's supplier qualification scheme, before Network Rail contracts directly.

Over the past 5 years, most of Network Rail's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and construction work.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@network-rail.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@network-rail.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@network-rail.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@network-rail.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@network-rail.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@network-rail.gov