Awarded contract

Strategic Commercial Railcard Partner

Details

Buyer: Network Rail
Supplier(s): Santander UK PLC
Value: £2,654,320
Duration: 7 months
Topic: Railway transport services
Published: 15 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Contract Award Notice is being published to recognise the Direct Award to the Supplier. This Direct award is to to allow extra time for legal negotiations to happen to put in the main contract for Strategic Commercial Railcard Partner following the award of the contract via the tender process that was conducted. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award date1 June 2026
Completed: Award published15 June 2026
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date31 December 2026in 2 months

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