Closed tender

983953021 T1381 -Improving freight gauges (W7-W9a and 10a)

Details

Buyer: Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd
Value: £110,000
Topic: Research services
Published: 6 October 2025
Submission: 7 November 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This research will review and propose changes to the W7, W7a, W8, W8a, W9, W9a and W10a vehicle gauge definitions. It will create a robust evidence base to inform the proposed changes and ensure that these maximise, as much as possible, the opportunity to accommodate wagon and container combinations within these gauges without affecting their route clearance. The analysis will also show where additional gauge enhancement work could unlock the possibility for increased container flows. To view this notice, please click here: https://rssb.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=984927758

Timeline

Completed: Tender published6 October 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date7 November 2025

About the buyer

Rail Safety and Standards Board is a not-for-profit, industry-owned company that supports Britain's railways with data, standards and research, and buys through its own procurement team. Smaller purchases are made directly by the business, and larger ones go through the procurement team. Many research projects are proposed by industry organisations and can be co-funded by those that benefit.

Over the past 5 years, most of Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd's contract awards have been in research and development, business services and IT services.

Decision makers

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