Client Support Framework (CSF)
- Buyer
- East West Rail Company Limited
- Value
- £350,000,000
- Closes
- 13 November 2026
- Where
- MILTON KEYNES
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
East West Rail Company is setting up a 12-year framework, a pre-approved list of suppliers, to support the running of its rail programme linking Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bedford and Cambridge. It will appoint one supplier for each of three lots, and the framework is estimated at £350 million. The first lot covers programme reporting, planning, cost control and risk management, the kind of office-based support that helps a large project stay on track.
What the buyer wants
• Integrated reporting on programme cost, schedule, risk and change, including executive dashboards and KPI scorecards • Building and maintaining integrated master schedules, critical path analysis, and cost and schedule risk analysis • Cost forecasting, earned value management and early warning indicators, plus maintaining programme risk, issue and opportunity registers
Lots
- Reporting and Controls / PMO Support
- Commercial Management and Contract Administration Support
- Project & Construction Management Support
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The £350 million value over 12 years, the Stage 1 assessment of legal and financial capacity and conflict of interest declarations, and the rule that a firm appointed to this framework cannot also be appointed to the separate ITOAE partner contract are the most likely to rule out a small business.
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How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
Where to apply
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Questions about this tender? The official notice gives the buyer's contact.
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