Quick answer — Rail Safety and Standards BoardLast refreshed 29 Apr 2026

At a glance

Rail Safety and Standards Board has awarded £14.4m across 51 suppliers, with 70 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 16% · 27 open notices now · 2 awards in last 90 d (£122k) · SME share 26% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration16%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share26%
Pipeline · open now27
Awards · 90 d2

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Rail Safety and Standards Board is a contracting authority, based in UKI31. Tracks 126 published notices and 91 awards on PublicSupply.

126
Notices published
91
Awards
51
Suppliers engaged
2018
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£620k
12 m spend
£4.8m
Prior 12 m
-87%
YoY change
£99k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Rail Safety and Standards Board — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£1m£1m£2m£2mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

5

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

27

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£122k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified84 · £12.1m
services41 · £4.9m
works1 · £0

Instrument type

contract126 · £17.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 63Contracts Finder: 63

Awarded contracts · 70 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Rail Safety and Standards Board is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Safety Risk Model (SRM) v10 upgradeSotera Risk Solutions Limited£56k29 Apr 2026active
Rail Reform Consultancy ServicesEconomic Insight Limitedactive
GB-London: 977215574 Rail Technical Strategy (RTS) Interface DevelopmentAECOM Limited72000000£35k22 Oct 2025active
GB-London: 847167048 Learning Management System 2026Cornerstone OnDemand Limited72000000£66k22 Mar 2026active
1022581808 T1415 AI-Enabled Assessment of Safety Critical Communication Quality73110000£100kest.active
SaviRPM - Rail Performance Modelling ApplicationRiskol Consulting Limited£27k04 Feb 2026active
1015007208 T1403 - Preventing unsolicited brake applications: A new approach to PassComm system design73110000£75kest.active
Renewable Fuels BenchmarkingEmissions Analytics Limitedactive
989217422 T1379- Validation and enhancement of train driver psychometric assessment, selection and recruitment for modern train operations in GB RailWork Psychology Limited£250kest.active
1011143624 T1405 - Developing appropriate safety mitigations for the movement of scrap in and out of tunnel environments73110000£80kest.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
PF
2 contracts · 26 Mar
£2.3mest.
16% of total
2
CT
4 contracts · 28 Mar
£2.0m
14% of total
▼ 100%
3
OL
5 contracts · 01 Mar17 Apr
£1.5m
10% of total
4
CT
1 contract · 30 Nov
£1.4m
10% of total
5
BS
2 contracts · 27 Jun22 Jul
£1.2m
9% of total
▼ 100%
6
AM
2 contracts · 14 Oct
£1.2mest.
8% of total
▼ 100%
7
CC
£722k
5% of total
▼ 100%
8
RC
3 contracts · SME · 21 Oct
£517kest.
4% of total
▼ 100%
951
···
43 other suppliers
long tail · 16 SMEs
£3.6m
25% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Support transport services
4 contracts
£3.4m
22%
Other
30 contracts
£3.1m
20%
R&D services
37 contracts
£2.4m
15%
Business, legal, advisory
10 contracts
£1.9m
12%
IT services, software
14 contracts
£1.5m
9%
Construction works
1 contract
£1.5m
9%
Recreational, cultural, sport
2 contracts
£1.3m
8%
Software packages, IT
2 contracts
£705k
4%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Support transport services
Other
0
0
0
0
R&D services
Business, legal, advisory
IT services, software
0
0
Construction works
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.

Rail Safety and Standards Board 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.

26%
SME supplier share
target 33%
19
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
51
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 26% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI31
Contact
Procurement Team
Email
hazel.fernandes@rssb.co.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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