Official UK procurement notice
Blue Badge Scheme · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDudley M.B.C are inviting providers to hear about an upcoming tendering opportunity for the Dudley MBC Blue Badge Scheme.
Local authorities are responsible for the day-to-day administration and enforcement of the scheme. They are responsible for determining and implementing administrative, assessment and enforcement procedures which they believe are in accordance with the governing legislation.
The Blue Badge (Disabled Persons' Parking) Scheme was introduced in 1971 under Section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 ('the 1970 Act').
Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
The aim of the scheme is to help people with severe mobility problems caused by visible and non-visible ('hidden') disabilities to access goods and services, by allowing them to park close to their destination. The scheme is open to eligible people irrespective of whether they are travelling as a driver or as a passenger.
The scheme provides a national range of on-street parking concessions to Blue Badge holders. It allows them to park without charge or time limit in otherwise restricted on-street parking environments and allows them to park on yellow lines for up to three hours, unless a loading ban is in place.
CPV: Administrative healthcare services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Mar 2025, 10:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Mar 2025, 10:47 GMT
- Authority reference
25029- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-007776- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e934Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Mar 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published4 Mar 2025, 10:47 GMT
- Market engagement28 Mar 2025, 23:59 GMT
The aim of this engagement is to provide an outline of the commissioning intentions, for commissioners to understand the interest and the market's capabilities and for potential service providers to gain a wider understanding of the scope, provide feedback and ask questions.
The information gathered from this exercise will help shape future proposals including any potential tendering process and associated service specification. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process.
Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement process shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the pre-procurement market engagement procurement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council. This is not a call for competition.
For this engagement event we will be hold one hour, 1:1 sessions with providers. These will be held over the following dates and time.
- Wednesday 2nd April 2025 - 12.00-2.30pm
- Friday 4th April 2025 - 9.00 - 2.00pm
The sessions will provide further information about this tender opportunity. If you are interested in booking a one-hour time slot, please contact Kim.Morris@dudley.gov.uk quoting in the subject header 'Blue Badge Scheme Event'.
Please request a time slot by the deadline of 12pm -28th March 2025.
- Contract starts391 days ago1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Mar 2025, 10:47 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender