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Northern Trains Ltd

Heaton TRU Upgrades Designs

Live tender · OpenOpen · closes Mon 9 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMT

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value
£163,000Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time)
Mon 9 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMTOpen for bids.
Published
13 Oct 2026
Region
Not stated

02/ The brief

What the notice says

Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.

Northern Trains Ltd, is a Train Operating Company (TOC) that operates passenger rail services in the North of England. Northern Trains Ltd is publishing this notice to establish a contract for the designs at Heaton Train Care Centre for TRU.

This project requires the development of designs to accepted for construction (AFC) status for the proposed enhancements at Heaton TCC. The successful tenderer shall be appointed as the Principal Designer under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (2015) and undertake all required duties of this role.

The appointed supplier will be responsible for producing and developing the design to AFC status for the scope of items included in this document and supporting tender package. This will include production of Inspection and Test Plans (ITP), Designer’s Risk Assessment (DRA), and Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA). For further details please see Heaton TRU Work scope within this tender package.

The nature of the arrangement is that new services will be supplied under a JCT Consultancy Agreement.

Where used throughout this notice, the meaning of Train Operating Companies includes all and any of those train operating companies who, currently or in the future, provide services for the carriage of passengers by railway:

under a franchise agreement with the Secretary of State within the meaning of section 23(3) of the Railways Act 1993 or under, or secured under, the Secretary of State’s duty in section 30(1) of the Railways Act 1993; or in accordance with legislation which supersedes or amends the powers referred to in a) and b), including where such powers are transferred from the Secretary of State to another body.

The list of current providers of services for the carriage of passengers by railway under these provisions can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts.

Novation or Assignment

The contract may be novated or assigned by Northern Trains Ltd to Train Operating Companies, or to DFT Operator Limited (company number: 07141122) or any successor parent company to a Train Operating Company, following a corporate restructuring or similar circumstance.

Other Information

Northern Trains Ltd expressly reserves the right:

not to award any suppliers the contract referred to in this notice; and in no circumstances will the customer be liable for any costs incurred by the suppliers.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the DELTA at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/446C6938M7

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/446C6938M7

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

  • 22314000
  • 79314000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 13 Oct 2026
    Tender notice (UK4)

    Tender notice (UK4) published 13 October 2026.

    Deadline in this release: Mon 9 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMT.

    Release 096651-2026

    View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)

05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

  • Only one release is held, so there is no change history.

06/ Questions

About this notice

The notice gives a deadline of Monday 9 November 2026, 16:00 GMT. Check the tender documents for the exact time and for any extension the buyer publishes.

Northern Trains Ltd published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £163,000.

08/ Related

Where to go next

These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.

Reference
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Source
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Stage
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Last verified
Wed 14 Oct 2026, 08:02 BST
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