Closed tender

#43880 - Graduates, Apprentices & Signallers (Candidate Management)

Details

Value
£4,000,000
Published
6 January 2026
Submission
22 January 2026

Tender description

The Network Rail Resourcing Team within HR Organisational Capability is looking to procure a supplier to provide a Candidate Management Service to support the recruitment of Graduates, Apprentices and Signalers within Network Rail. This project is aligned to the Network Rail People Strategy outcome of: attracting, developing and retaining dedicated and committed people. This project will achieve this outcome by helping to attract new talent to the business to help grow and future-proof Network Rail. The requirement is to support the recruitment campaigns for Apprentices, Graduates and Signalers. There are several recruitment campaigns throughout the financial year for each of the recruitment category areas. Campaigns vary in volume and frequency depending on the candidate category. Candidate management support is required to provide the campaign management programme with support to ensure candidates enjoy a positive and supportive experience through the recruitment programme. The objectives of the service are to provide a well delivered candidate journey, ease of access to all testing stages and thorough interview processes with detailed briefing along the journey. Each of the campaigns are large scale multi-site national campaigns requiring careful management and co-ordination to ensure the programme timelines are adhered to and the reputation of the company remains intact.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published6 January 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date22 January 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.

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