Travel agency, tour operator and tourist assistance services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition

CPV 63500000Services · classin Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

Open now1open for bids now · see them in the search
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months1210 contracting authorities · 29 in the catalogue
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical contract value£61,897middle value of 13 contract awards, net · not frameworks
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What a contract here is usually worth.

Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.

Based on 13 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.

Published values, not actual spend.

Last 36 months.

Codes and neighbouring classes

The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division

Who buys
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.

Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name

Buyer type
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.

Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.

  • Education & universities34%(10 notices)
    10 of 29 notices are Education & universities (34%).
  • Local authorities28%(8 notices)
    8 of 29 notices are Local authorities (28%).
  • Other public bodies17%(5 notices)
    5 of 29 notices are Other public bodies (17%).
  • Police, fire & emergency3%(1 notices)
    1 of 29 notices are Police, fire & emergency (3%).
  • Central government3%(1 notices)
    1 of 29 notices are Central government (3%).
  • Not classified14%(4 notices)
    4 of 29 notices are Not classified (14%).
Contracting authorityTypeNoticesLast 12 monthsOpen now
British CouncilLocal authorities420
Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT)Education & universities200
Royal Holloway and Bedford New CollegeEducation & universities220
Scottish Canalsnot classified200
Transport for LondonOther public bodies200
University of the West of EnglandEducation & universities210
Birmingham City UniversityEducation & universities110
JiscOther public bodies110
Leeds Arts UniversityEducation & universities100
Manchester City CouncilLocal authorities100

21 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.

Where the work is delivered
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.

Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.

Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.

Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 15 of 29 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region

RegionNoticesBids / lotSME winsLocal wins
South East England4 · 27%———
South West England2 · 13%———
West Midlands2 · 13%———
Scotland2 · 13%———
North East England1 · 7%———
Northern Ireland1 · 7%———
North West England1 · 7%———
Greater London1 · 7%———
Wales (Cymru)1 · 7%———

Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.

How it is bought
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract90%(26 notices)
    26 of 29 notices are Contract (90%).
  • Framework10%(3 notices)
    3 of 29 notices are Framework (10%).
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open31%(9 notices)
    9 of 29 notices are Open (31%).
  • Route not published28%(8 notices)
    8 of 29 notices are Route not published (28%).
  • Limited / restricted21%(6 notices)
    6 of 29 notices are Limited / restricted (21%).
  • Direct award17%(5 notices)
    5 of 29 notices are Direct award (17%).
  • Selective3%(1 notices)
    1 of 29 notices are Selective (3%).
Threshold
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.

Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.

  • Above threshold80%(4 notices)
    4 of 5 notices are Above threshold (80%).
  • Below threshold20%(1 notices)
    1 of 5 notices are Below threshold (20%).
Typical tender window
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How long bidders get to respond.

Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.

All notices we hold, not just recent ones.

30 daysrobust · n=5middle value, notice to deadline

Competition

Contracts published in the last 36 months (21) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared

Contract value, net
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The usual range of contract values here.

The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.

Published values, not actual spend.

p25 £36,450middle value £61,897p75 £606,000
interquartile range of 13 awards · p90 £807,553
Competed
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.

Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.

6 of 17 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 4 more give no procedure and are left out.

Last 36 months.

35%robust · n=17
Awards won by SMEs
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.

Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.

5 of 10 awards where the winner declared its size.

Last 36 months.

50%robust · n=10
Abandoned
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How often a tender ends with no award.

Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.

0 of 21 notices, last 36 months.

Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.

Last 36 months.

0%robust · n=21

Who wins
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 18 awards to 16 suppliers

Where to submit
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Where bids for this work are submitted.

Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.

E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 10 of 29 notices name one · each portal page explains registration

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • What counts here. Every notice with a CPV code starting 6350. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2022 to 2 Sept 2026.
  • Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
  • Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.