Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB)

How to win their contracts

Measured from Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 29 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 11 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.4 tenders a month, measured over 39 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £144k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in research and development services and related consultancy services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.