Rail passengers

The Government has set out the need for greater transparency in public expenditure.

Our online e-tendering system enables us to publish notices, pre-qualification questionnaires, and invitations to tender.

We actively encourage and support Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and third sector organisations to compete for our contracts.

To ensure value for money, our procurement activities are subject to different levels of competition based on the value of the expenditure.

Although the UK has now left the EU, most legislation emanating from the rail packages continues to be in force subject to amendments introduced by "EU exit" regulations. This is referred to as "retained EU law" in the EU Withdrawal Act.

Network Rail is required to deliver obligations under its network licence, and these are monitored and enforced by us.

Advice on what railway industry occupational health diseases that must be reported to us under RIDDOR can be found on this page.