Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED - Provision of Services for Drugs & Alcohol Testing and Medication Advice Line (GBP 8,613,516)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 5th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED. Procurement: Provision of Services for Drugs & Alcohol Testing and Medication Advice Line. Description: The provision of Drug and Alcohol Testing services: Random Drug & Alcohol testing programme For-cause and post incident/accident D&A testing Drug & Alcohol Support programme active monitoring testing Supply of POCT kits with Medical Review Officer (MRO) service Test the Tester for Network Rail Occupational Health Service employee testers Medication advice line Category: services. Value: GBP 8,613,516 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Abbott Toxicology Ltd.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 5th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 5th October 2026 · 14:25

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.