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Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A.
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- Type
- Infrastructure manager — FS Group infrastructure manager
- Market · Region
- European Union · Italy
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Electrification, Predictive maintenance, AI inspection, Digital operations, Cybersecurity
Manages Italy's 17,000 km railway network with €11.6 billion invested in 2025.
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Manages Italy's 17,000 km network and delivered a record €11.6bn of investment in 2025 across 1,300 worksites, driven by PNRR funds; spends ~€3bn a year on extraordinary maintenance with a predictive-diagnostics control room.
- Type
- Infrastructure manager — FS Group infrastructure manager
- Where
- Italy · Rome
- Programmes
- Recovery and Resilience Facility, ERTMS / ETCS, TEN-T, Connecting Europe Facility
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Electrification, Predictive maintenance, AI inspection, Digital operations, Cybersecurity
Structure
- owned by FS Group — RFI is the FS Group's infrastructure manager (active)
Who holds what here
- awarded SVI — Motorised recovery vehicles under full maintenance service, lot 1 of 2 — (concluded 4 September 2026). The notice total covers both lots; lot 2 went to a different consortium. (active · since 2026-09)
- awarded Cinel — Supply of steel blocks, DAC.0195.2026, lot 1 of 3 — (concluded 31 August 2026). Lots 2 and 3 went to another supplier; the notice total does not reconcile with the sum of the three winning tenders and is carried as published. (active · since 2026-08)
- awarded MERMEC — RFI MER MEC signalling framework DAC.0827.2025 — MER MEC STE S.r.l. (active · since 2026-03)
- awarded Plasser & Theurer — RFI tamping machines under full maintenance service — PLASSER & THEURER; PLASSER ITALIANA S.r.l. (active · since 2026-03)
- awarded Progress Rail — RFI Progress Rail signalling upgrade DAC.0629.2025 — Progress Rail Signaling S.p.A. (active · since 2026-03)
- awarded Salcef — RFI Albate–Molteno electrification design and construction — SALCEF S.p.A. (active · since 2026-03)
- awarded Webuild — Santomarco tunnel, Paola–Cosenza — to consorzio Santomarco, whose ordinary consortium names WEBUILD S.p.A. as lead consortium member (Impresa Capofila Consorziata) with Ghella, Impresa Pizzarotti & C. and SELI Overseas (concluded 18 December 2025) (active · since 2025-12)
- awarded Ghella — Santomarco tunnel design and construction — GHELLA S.p.A. (active · since 2025-12)
- awarded Vossloh — Switches for the high-speed network — six-year framework, with manganese crossings and components (> in total) (active · since 2025-11)
- Contract detail and values (4)over $1bn · $25–100mIn the European Union edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (9)
- ● FS Italiane · FS Group — group companies (checked 2026-09-06)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — Progettazione esecutiva ed esecuzione dei lavori di Elettrificazione della linea Albate – Molteno – Lecco, Lotto 1 (contract award notice 268699-2026) (published 2026-04-20 · checked 2026-10-03)
- ● TED — Tenders Electronic Daily · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — DAC.0195.2026 - Fornitura di Blocchi in acciaio (contract award notice 633368-2026), awarded to CINEL OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.p.A. (published 2026-08 · checked 2026-09-26)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — DAC.0629.2025 Progress Rail Signaling S.p.A. proprietary signalling systems (contract award notice 206173-2026) (published 2026-03-25 · checked 2026-10-03)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — DAC.0827.2025 MER MEC STE S.r.l. proprietary signalling systems framework (contract award notice 253072-2026) (published 2026-04-14 · checked 2026-10-03)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — Italy – Railway tunnel construction work – Progettazione esecutiva ed esecuzione — notice 8876-2026 (published 2026-01-08 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● TED — Tenders Electronic Daily · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — Fornitura, in regime di Full Maintenance Service, di Recupero… (contract award notice 633191-2026), awarded to SVI S.p.A. (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-26)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — Olaszország – Vasúti karbantartó vagy szerelőjárművek – Fornitura, in regime di Full Maintenance Service, di Rincalzatrici da scambi (contract award notice 598800-2026) (published 2026-08-31 · checked 2026-10-03)
- ● Vossloh · Vossloh supplies switches for Italy's railway network (RFI framework, six years) (checked 2026-09-06)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC.0037.2026 framework design execution works | Bids closed | over $1bn | Bids closed May 2026 · award expected |
| Santomarco tunnel design and construction | Awarded | over $1bn | Published January 2026 |
| RFI tamping machines under full maintenance service | Awarded | $100–500m | Published August 2026 |
| RFI Albate–Molteno electrification design and construction | Awarded | $25–100m | Published April 2026 |
| RFI Progress Rail signalling upgrade DAC.0629.2025 | Awarded | $25–100m | Published March 2026 |
| RFI motorised recovery vehicles, full maintenance service | Awarded | $25–100m | Published September 2026 |
| RFI MER MEC signalling framework DAC.0827.2025 | Awarded | $25–100m | Published April 2026 |
Withheld in the free surface
- Procurement structure
- Award history (5)
- Entry path
- Portals (2)
- Published contacts (4)
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the European Union edition · See a fully open example
8 sources · 7 primary
- ● Rete Ferroviaria Italiana · rfi.it (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (press) · RFI – PNRR: avanti con potenziamento della rete ferroviaria anche dopo il 2026 (published 2024-11-14 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ○ Fortune Italia · Investimenti record per RFI, Inchingolo: 'Puntiamo tutto sulla credibilità nei confronti dei passeggeri' (published 2026-06-01 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — Italy – Railway tunnel construction work – Progettazione esecutiva ed esecuzione — notice 8876-2026 (published 2026-01-08 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA — Italy – Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work – DAC — notice 209957-2026 (published 2026-03-26 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · RFI S.p.A. Rete Ferroviaria Italiana — Aggiudicazione Appalto DAC.0717.2025 Servizio di sgombero dell'Infrastruttura con mezzi attrezzati per la Sede di Bologna — notice 18873-2026 (published 2026-01-13 · checked 2026-10-03)
- ● TED — Tenders Electronic Daily · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — Fornitura, in regime di Full Maintenance Service, di Recupero… (contract award notice 633191-2026), awarded to SVI S.p.A. (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-26)
- ● TED — Tenders Electronic Daily · Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. — DAC.0195.2026 - Fornitura di Blocchi in acciaio (contract award notice 633368-2026), awarded to CINEL OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.p.A. (published 2026-08 · checked 2026-09-26)
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