Infrastructure and rail websites that get you on the shortlist.
Your buyers are Tier 1 contractors, Network Rail and the infrastructure clients, utilities, National Highways and local authorities. Before they invite you to tender they check your accreditations on the registers, look for projects like theirs at their value, and increasingly ask an AI assistant who in the region does your kind of work. Infrastructure is the part of UK construction forecast to grow in 2026 and 2027, and the Tier 1s delivering it run the most formal supply chain checks in the sector: RISQS, Achilles and their own registers before anyone sees a drawing. We build the website that answers all of that before anyone picks up the phone.
Four stages, one trade, built around how your packages are procured.
The four stages the Tender Check scores are the same four a buyer goes through before they shortlist a rail subcontractor. Here is what each one means for your trade.
Found
A buyer searches for “rail civils subcontractor Yorkshire” or asks ChatGPT which infrastructure, rail and utilities subcontractors in the region have worked for a Tier 1. A page per package, a page per region you cover and a Google Business Profile in the right category are what put you in that answer.
Verified
For your trade that means RISQS registration, Sentinel and PTS competence, Achilles UVDB, NRSWA and HAUC, SSIP accreditation, ISO certificates and your CDM and safety-critical competence, written out with level, issuing body and expiry, each linked to its register. Logos verify nothing. Text does, for a procurement team and for the AI tools they now ask.
Evidenced
Case studies written the way a PQQ asks for them: client, Tier 1, framework or programme, value band, programme, possessions worked and the safety record on the package. Plus a downloadable capability statement and your H&S and environmental figures on one page, so a bid writer can attach you to a tender without emailing first.
Contacted
A named tender contact with a direct email and phone, a stated response time for tender invitations, a route for sending drawings and tender packs, and tap-to-call on every page, because the enquiry usually comes from a site office, not a desk.
Every page a rail subcontractor needs, and nothing you will not use.
The structure is the same for every rail subcontractor we work with. The content is yours: your packages, your accreditations, your projects and the buyers you want more of.
- A page for each package you tender for: rail civils, permanent way support, utilities and diversions, highways and 278 works, drainage and flood defence, and plant and labour supply, each with scope, typical values, sectors and the accreditations that apply.
- An accreditations page with RISQS registration, Sentinel and PTS competence, Achilles UVDB, NRSWA and HAUC, SSIP accreditation, ISO certificates and your CDM and safety-critical competence written out and linked, and added to your structured data so AI tools can read them.
- Up to 15 case studies with client, Tier 1, framework or programme, value band, programme, possessions worked and the safety record on the package, filed by sector and value band.
- Sector and regional pages for the work you want more of, written around the main contractors and programmes that are actually there.
A downloadable capability statement, an H&S and environmental evidence page, and a tender route with document upload that works on a phone.
Questions from infrastructure, rail and utilities subcontractors
Should RISQS and Achilles be on the site?
Written out with the registration numbers, scopes and expiry, and linked to the registers. They are the first thing a Tier 1 procurement team checks and the first thing an AI tool looks for when asked who is approved to work on the railway or for a utility.
We mainly supply labour and plant to Tier 1s. Is a site worth it?
Yes, because the Tier 1s score their supply chain on every framework bid and your site is part of that evidence, and because the frameworks change hands. A site with your registrations, competence records and the packages you have supported is what gets you onto the next contractor’s list.
Our current site is only a few years old. Do we need a rebuild?
Possibly not. If it is on WordPress and loads quickly, the £999 Foundations Sprint fixes the accreditations, case studies, business details and tender route in fourteen days, and the fee is credited against a build if you upgrade within six months. The free Tender Check and our personal review tell you which applies before you spend anything.
Will AI tools really name a rail subcontractor?
Yes, and we test it every month. Ask ChatGPT or Google AI which infrastructure, rail and utilities subcontractors in your region have worked for a Tier 1 and it names the firms whose sites give it something to verify. Most sites in this trade give it nothing, which is why the ones that do get named.
Do you write our bids?
No. We build the evidence a bid needs: accreditations a buyer can verify, case studies in PQQ format, a capability statement and H&S figures. Your bid writer or estimator then has everything to hand, and the procurement team scoring the bid finds the same evidence on your site.
How long does it take and what do you need from us?
Six weeks from the first call for a website, with the date agreed before we start. From you: a 30-minute call, your certificates and insurance, photos and details of the packages you are proudest of, and a reply when we send copy for approval. We write everything else.
Not sure where your site stands with the buyers in your trade? Run the free Tender Check first.
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