Published date: 7 December 2017

This notice was replaced on 15 February 2018

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 15 February 2018)

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£35,000 to £45,000

Procurement reference

ORR/CT/17-63

Published date

7 December 2017

Closing date

10 January 2018

Contract start date

22 January 2018

Contract end date

18 May 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

We want to assess how well Network Rail's routes and the System Operator (SO) engages with their customers and end users in developing their business plans. This reflects our wider objective of ensuring that Network Rail's customers/stakeholders can play an effective role in influencing what the routes/the SO should deliver, as well as in challenging them where performance falls below what is expected (as necessary).

Project objective:
The aim of this work is to support our assessment/grading (e.g. a score of 1-5) of the quality of the routes/ the SO's stakeholder engagement in preparing business plans and to inform our wider thinking for stakeholder engagement throughout CP6.
ORR's PR18 Draft Determination will discuss our findings on the routes'/the SO's stakeholder engagement.

More information

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Under no circumstances should prospective bidders contact any member of ORR's project team directly in relation to this ITT other than the Procurement team. For audit purposes all communications regarding this tender must be through our tendering portal.
Bidders should ensure that requests for clarifications and final proposals are uploaded on to the portal by the time/date set out in the ITT

About the buyer

Address

One Kemble Street
London
WC2B 4AN
England

Email

peter.gamble@orr.gsi.gov.uk