Pre-tender

Rail Plant Performance System

Details

Value
£529,000
Topic
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published
12 November 2026
Submission
11 December 2026in 1 month

Tender description

Network Rail is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for the future provision of a managed service for the Rail Plant Performance System (Rail PPS), a bespoke online system used to record and analyse rail plant performance. The anticipated requirement includes application hosting, maintenance and support, data backup, data import and extraction, technical and user support, service management and source code/data management. The contract may also include future software development and system enhancements, including mobile functionality, reporting, system integrations and other improvements commissioned through agreed work packages. This PME is intended to understand market capability, appetite, delivery approaches and potential barriers to competition and to inform Network Rail’s future procurement approach.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published12 November 2026
    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.

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