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BenchSmart Phase 2 - Detailed Design. Direct Award

DfTc - Department for Transport · published 19 Feb 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release IDa6d7abe6-0134-4947-a623-758e6ff57977-884764

Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-2e15d1b0-c9f8-4b82-85d2-68ef6abb4fd3

Buyer identifierGB-CFS-167286

Release typeaward

PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value: £143,736
Tender value: £143,736
Procurement method: Single tender action (below threshold)
Category: services
CPV: 71356000
Delivery: British Oversea Territories

PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Following an initial feasibility study to determine how a sector-wide benchmarking tool could be developed, as well as engaging with key ALBs that would need to use such a tool, this contract is for specialist technical advisors to provide project support, including subject matter experts, to develop a detailed design solution for a sector-wide benchmarking tool, known as BenchSmart, based on Network Rail's latest railway asset categorisation and developed specifically for benchmarking purposes.

Tender statuscomplete

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01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release19 Feb 2026
02Tender period endsTender-period field as published13 Feb 2026
03Contract startsContract-period field as published16 Feb 2026
04Contract endsContract-period field as published15 May 2026

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Arcadis Consulting (UK) Limited

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Published 19 Feb 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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