OREANDA-NEWS. BS 10500:2011 is the Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) standard developed by the British Standards Institution (BSI) in response to the UK Bribery Act 2010, which became law in July 2011. The legislation prohibits bribery and failing to prevent bribery by associates. It is the strictest anti-bribery legislation in the world and applies to UK companies wherever they operate.

Our certification gives assurance to Network Rail Consulting Ltd’s clients, partners and stakeholders that we have in place an effective, robust anti-bribery management system. It is part of our drive for good governance and quality right across our business. Nigel Ash, managing director of Networking Rail Consulting, is clear about the benefits:

“We are immensely proud of our rail engineering heritage and success in improving Britain’s railway. We are now exporting this knowledge around the world. The way we do business - which is always with integrity and honesty - is hugely important. Our reputation is built by all of us doing the right thing every day - and preventing bribery is an important part of that. Achieving certification to BS 10500 is a clear statement to our clients and stakeholders about the way we work, and sets out our expectations of our people and business partners.”

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About Network Rail Consulting

  • Network Rail Consulting is a subsidiary of Network Rail
  • Network Rail Consulting aims to harness the vast range of skills and experience available within Network Rail to demonstrate British expertise overseas and be an international ambassador for Britain’s rail industry. It will also help channel innovation back into our core business, helping deliver a better value railway for Britain
  • The board of directors of Network Rail Consulting comprises Patrick Butcher (chairman), Nigel Ash (managing director), and Mike Prager (finance & commercial director)
  • Network Rail Consulting is selling the full range of rail expertise within Network Rail including:
    • Advisory: Re-structuring, privatisation, institutional, policy development and reviews, audits, procurement, bid support, rail operations including retail optimisation
    • Strategic Planning: Transport master plans, market assessments, demand forecasting, project appraisal and route utilisation strategies
    • Asset Management: Developing conceptual asset management frameworks, route asset management plans
    • Operations & Maintenance: Practical operating advice, timetabling and simulation modelling, maintenance regimes and outsourced operate and maintain contracts
    • Infrastructure Projects: Outputs definition, pre-feasibility, feasibility, project and programme management

About Network Rail
Network Rail owns, manages and develops Britain’s railway – the 20,000 miles of track, 40,000 bridges and viaducts, and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations (the largest of which we also run). In partnership with train operators we help people take more than 1.6bn journeys by rail every year - double the number of 1996 - and move hundreds of millions of tonnes of freight, saving almost 8m lorry journeys. We’re investing ?38bn in the railway by 2019 to deliver more frequent, more reliable, safer services and brighter and better stations.