Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£2.4m
12 m spend
£162k
Prior 12 m
+1385%
YoY change
£25.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Direct Rail Services Limited — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£413k£825k£1.2m£1.7mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

29

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

6

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£455k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
No recorded contracts end within the next 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services53 · £640.6m
goods25 · £133.4m
Unspecified33 · £3.1m

Instrument type

contract108 · £776.7m
call off3 · £362k
Source:Find a Tender: 84Contracts Finder: 27

Awarded contracts · 7 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Direct Rail Services Limited is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
CL
13 contracts · SME · 02 Oct
£300.4mest.
2
FP
11 contracts · SME
£275.0mest.
3
DW
£275.0mest.
4
TH
11 contracts · SME
£275.0mest.
5
HS
£44.0mest.
6
BS
£44.0mest.
7
PM
1 contract
£44.0mest.
8
TG
£26.9mest.
917
···
9 other suppliers
long tail · 3 SMEs
£5.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
58 contracts
£1.7bn
88%
Transport equipment, vehicles
9 contracts
£108.9m
6%
Radio, TV, communications
1 contract
£42.6m
2%
Security, emergency equipment
4 contracts
£27.4m
1%
Transport services
2 contracts
£25.4m
1%
Repair & maintenance
11 contracts
£22.1m
1%
IT services, software
1 contract
£5.0m
0%
Software packages, IT
2 contracts
£420k
0%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

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Radio, TV, communications
Security, emergency equipment
Transport services
Repair & maintenance
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 1 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

80%
SME supplier share
target 33%
49
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
17
Distinct suppliers
87%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
18%
Local suppliers (CA postcodes)
2 of 11 with known office
23%
Value to local suppliers
£301.9m of £1.3bn
65%
Postcode coverage
11 of 17 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the CA postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKD12
Companies House
03020822
Contact
Sian Young
Email
sian.young@ntsglobal.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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