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Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR)

Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR) has published 13 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 17 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 16 October 2023.

Name in source
Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR)
Distinct suppliers
17
13
Awards
10 awards with a single named supplier
€300,000
Sole-supplier value
€400,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
3
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR) published 13 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2023.

Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (42% of awards), then managed services (25%).

By value, most goes on fleet and plant (100% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 3.5 bids, and 62% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 149 days from notice to award.

What they buy

Awarded value by spend category: €400K in one-off contracts across 12 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Fleet and plant€400K · 100%2 awards · 17% of awards
  2. Professional Services€0 · 0%5 awards · 42% of awards · all through frameworks
  3. Managed Services€0 · 0%3 awards · 25% of awards · all through frameworks
  4. Facilities management and maintenance€0 · 0%1 award · 8% of awards · all through frameworks
  5. ICT and office equipment€0 · 0%1 award · 8% of awards · all through frameworks

Services 100%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 3 awards have none and are not counted. Values are awarded values, not money paid, and leave out framework agreements, which publish a ceiling rather than a contract value.

How they buy

How each award was competed.

  • One-off tender 67%
  • Framework agreement 13%
  • Direct invitation 13%
  • Call-off from a framework 7%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 123.5
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 1225%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 1262%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 1385%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 12149 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 1229 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 215%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
17
Won by the top five
70%
of 10 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
0
suppliers with their first award here
Typical contract
€60K
median of 3 one-off awards with a value

Largest suppliers

  1. Holmes O'Malley Sexton LLP€200K · 1 award
  2. DHKN Limited€60K · 1 award
  3. Crowe€40K · 1 award

Value of one-off contracts won alone · number of awards

All 17 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €300,000 in awarded value; the largest single award is 67% of that. 3 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.

Suppliers that appear in other public records

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These suppliers are CRO companies that won at least one award from this buyer and also appear in the Register of Lobbying or a Register of Members’ Interests. Appearing in both does not mean an award was influenced. Open each company to see the records and how they were matched.

Sources: the OGP / eTenders open data file, published 7 Aug 2026, and TED contract award notices. Categories, bids, SME and timing figures come from eTenders only. About the sources

Value awarded by year

One-off contracts with a sole supplier; frameworks left out

  1. –2014
  2. –2019
  3. €200K2020
  4. €40K2022
  5. €60K2023

Awards by year

sole supplier shared

  1. 22014
  2. 22019
  3. 32020
  4. 12022
  5. 52023

Latest awards

All 13 contracts