Integration Technical Operations Assurance & Environment (ITOAE)

Buyer
East West Rail Company Limited
Value
£300,000,000
Closes
13 November 2026
Where
MILTON KEYNES, the East of England
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

East West Rail Company is looking for one single partner to help run the technical, planning and delivery side of the East West Rail programme, which will link Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bedford and Cambridge. The contract is estimated at £300 million and could last up to 12 years, with a continuous core service and extra work instructed as needed.

What the buyer wants

• Support the client's role as lead systems integrator, including the System Integration Strategy, the Master Integration Schedule, managing interfaces, and coordinating with Network Rail, train operators, DfT, ORR and adjacent programmes • Define and maintain technical frameworks, standards and design principles, provide independent technical challenge and assurance of design, and support the client's Design Authority • Provide systems engineering support (systems engineering management plans, requirements and model-based systems engineering), along with operations, assurance and environmental and consents work

Requirements

What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The scale of the work (a £300 million, 12-year single contract that is not split into lots) and the rule that the winning partner cannot also bid for main works or join the Client Support Framework for the contract's duration would most likely rule out small businesses, though the notice does not set out specific size thresholds, and the detailed conditions of participation are only given in the later Pre-Selection Questionnaire.

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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.

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