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# Pre-market Engagement- \[Graduates, Apprentices & Signallers, Candidate Management\]

[Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd](https://tendernation.io/buyers/network-rail-infrastructure-ltd)

Estimated value

Not stated

Published

7 Feb 2023

Deadline

Rolling deadline

## Who can bid

- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

## About this tender

This soft market testing document and questionnaire has been developed by Network Rail (NR) in advance of procuring a solution for the provision of Candidate Management Services.

NR wishes to incentivise the market to engage with the opportunity and contribute innovation, experience and delivery capability to the delivery of these courses.

In line with NR’s procurement principles, NR is committed to becoming an ‘informed’ client with excellent visibility and understanding of the market and the supply chains and customers operating within them.

At this stage, pre-procurement, NR are committed to engaging with the industry to inform and refine the overall sourcing strategy.

The purpose of this soft market testing is to:

- Understand the markets capacity and capability to deliver Candidate Management Services
- Provide potential suppliers the opportunity to give feedback to help inform the refinement of NR’s approach,
- Obtain information from the market to understand the market perspective,

The responses to this Questionnaire will be synthesised to identify key market themes, to be shared internally with key stakeholders, to both further inform the sourcing strategy and subsequent procurement process should it be commenced. This soft market testing is not itself a Call for Competition under any EU procurement process (whether pursuant to the Public Contracts regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, or otherwise). NR does not commit itself to commencing any such sourcing process.

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## CPV classification

Recruitment services Assessment centre services for recruitment

Source

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