Closed tender

Tubular Stretcher Bars (TSBs)

Details

Buyer: Network Rail
Published: 28 March 2026
Submission: 10 April 2026
Source: uk:bravosolution

Tender description

Network Rail is undertaking a market engagement exercise to understand the level of interest and capacity for the manufacture and supply of Tubular Stretcher Bars (TSBs). These goods will be required to be manufactured to specified standards with product approval required. This engagement aims to gather information from suppliers who have the technical capability, production capacity, and supply-chain readiness to support Network Rail’s ongoing requirements.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published28 March 2026
Current notice
Completed: Submission date10 April 2026

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