Quick answer — Office of Rail and RoadLast refreshed 13 Mar 2025

At a glance

Office of Rail and Road has awarded £32.0m across 273 suppliers, with 73 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 15% · 43 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 48% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration15%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share48%
Pipeline · open now43
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Office of Rail and Road is a contracting authority, based in UKI42. Tracks 517 published notices and 472 awards on PublicSupply.

517
Notices published
472
Awards
273
Suppliers engaged
2015
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£1.9m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£39k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Office of Rail and Road — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

43

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified469 · £29.0m
services48 · £3.6m

Instrument type

contract358 · £17.2m
call off159 · £15.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 430Find a Tender: 87

Awarded contracts · 73 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Office of Rail and Road is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
A review of National Highways' culture, approach, and processes to promote, incentivise and embed innovationAECOM LIMITED£80kest.active
Capacity of railway supply chain to meet key future funding period requirements79419000£50kest.active
​​ORR rail operations consultancy on West Coast Mainline and Wales and Western operational issues​79419000£30kest.active
A review of National Highways' maintenance of biodiversity and water quality assetsNOVASCAPE LIMITED£60kest.active
CEO Partner RecruitmentSAXTON BAMPFYLDE HEVER LIMITEDactive
Building the Office of Rail and Road data cataloguePUBLIC GROUP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED£50kest.active
Language Interpretation and Document Translation Services79540000£165kest.active
Retail Code of Practice - Rail Reform71311200£110kest.active
Rail Network Investment FrameworkGovernment Actuary's Department£50kest.active
Review of Lifts and Escalators Asset ManagementLECS (UK) LTD£50kest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
DR
2 contracts · SME · 22 Jun
£5.0m
15% of total
2
AL
6 contracts · 16 Dec08 Dec
£1.9mest.
6% of total
3
CL
15 contracts · SME · 21 Oct31 Jul
£1.3mest.
4% of total
▼ 100%
4
SD
10 contracts · 02 Feb30 Dec
£1.1mest.
4% of total
▼ 100%
5
PF
1 contract · SME · 07 Sept
£1.0m
3% of total
6
TN
6 contracts · SME · 27 Oct15 Aug
£782k
2% of total
7
TS
1 contract · SME · 30 Jun
£655k
2% of total
8
EE
6 contracts · SME · 25 Jun28 Feb
£620kest.
2% of total
9273
···
265 other suppliers
long tail · 133 SMEs
£19.5m
61% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
156 contracts
£13.1m
42%
IT services, software
82 contracts
£7.0m
22%
Architecture, engineering
68 contracts
£3.3m
11%
Software packages, IT
35 contracts
£2.6m
8%
Financial, insurance
14 contracts
£1.9m
6%
Other
38 contracts
£1.6m
5%
R&D services
30 contracts
£1.2m
4%
Office equipment, IT
14 contracts
£503k
2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
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Apr
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Business, legal, advisory
IT services, software
Architecture, engineering
Software packages, IT
Financial, insurance
Other
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 · 0 in 90 d

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

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Office of Rail and Road has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

48%
SME supplier share
target 33%
208
SME award rows
3
VCSE award rows
273
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI42
Contact
Neil Barry-Bayliss
Email
procurementteam@orr.gov.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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