How to win: PME Trackwork Maintenance & Signalling Support

About this contract

East Midlands Railway (EMR) is seeking information from the market to inform a future procurement for trackwork maintenance services across EMR depot infrastructure, including Etches Park, Eastcroft, and Kettering Sidings. This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise is intended to gather market insight to help shape the procurement strategy, scope of services, and commercial model, ensuring the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of depot infrastructure. The outcome of this PME may result in revisions to the final Procurement Strategy prior to the publication of the Invitation to Tender (ITT).

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — TRANSPORT UK EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓Lead with evidenced capability and social value — for services work these usually outweigh price.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 2 June 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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