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Railway Procurement Agency ( RPA ) has published 19 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 19 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 16 September 2015.
Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.
Railway Procurement Agency ( RPA ) published 19 contract awards in these records between 2013 and 2015.
Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (30% of awards), then managed services (25%).
By value, most goes on managed services (100% of one-off contract value).
Its tenders drew a median of 3.5 bids, and 59% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.
Advertised tenders took a median of 109 days from notice to award.
Awarded value by spend category: €1M in one-off contracts across 20 awards with a category recorded.
Services 70%Supplies 25%Works 5%
Categories are recorded by eTenders. Values are awarded values, not money paid, and leave out framework agreements, which publish a ceiling rather than a contract value.
How each award was competed.
| Measure | This buyer |
|---|---|
| Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 20 | 3.5 |
| Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 20 | 5% |
| Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 20 | 59% |
| Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 19 | 84% |
| Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 20 | 109 days |
| Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 20 | 28 days |
| Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 23 | 4% |
Value of one-off contracts won alone · number of awards
One-off contracts with a single supplier total €1,000,000 in awarded value; the largest single award is 100% of that. Awarded value is not money paid.
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
One-off contracts with a sole supplier; frameworks left out
sole supplier shared