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Intra-company benchmarking of Network Rail's maintenance and renewals expenditure

Business ServicesCPV 79412000

Value£75,000

Deadline20 Oct 2026

Published22 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

£75,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline

Published 22 Sept 202626 days leftCloses 20 Oct 2026

Who to contact

procurementteam@orr.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£75ktotal contract value

median £66k

this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

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The brief

This project aim is understanding the drivers of Network Rail's expenditure, including the reasons for changes over time, is key to understanding value for money - of which cost efficiency is a key part.

To achieve this, we use a range of complementary approaches including bottom-up assessments of Network Rail's business plans and performance, and top-down cost benchmarking using statistical (econometric) methods.

This work relates to our top-down benchmarking of Network Rail's maintenance and renewals expenditure for the year from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 ('2025-26').

What it takes to bid this

5–9 daysof bid-team effort

£3.4k–£6.2kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the under £100k band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

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Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

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