Penalty Charge Notice System (Bristol) - Soft Market Test

Authority: Bristol City Council (Local council)

Goods

Sectors: Transport Equipment & Vehicles (34)Software Packages & ERP (48)Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services (63) Delivery: Delivery location not published

Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender

Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice

Contract term 5 yrsends 1 Jul 2032 · up to 1 Jul 2037 with extensions · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Bristol City Council (BCC) oversees the enforcement of Parking, Bus Lane, and Clean Air Zone (CAZ) restrictions, along with the issuing and management of associated Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs). In the coming period, we will be implementing a Liveable Neighbourhoods scheme and encompassing Moving Traffic Enforcement. To provide some context, approximately 700,000 PCNs were issued in the previous financial year, with around 470,000 related to CAZ violations.

Requirements will be refined further upon receipt of completed questionnaires.

CPV: Car park control equipment · Software package and information systems · Traffic monitoring services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrs

Contract period: 1 Jul 2027 – 1 Jul 2032 (5 yrs) · up to 1 Jul 2037 with extensions

Extensions: Extension options published

34926000 Car park control equipment 48000000 Software package and information systems 63712710 Traffic monitoring services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Legal basis: UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category: Goods
Notice status: Past planning notice
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
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: 21 Mar 2025, 12:22 GMT
Last source update: 21 Mar 2025, 12:22 GMT
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-010648
Latest notice: Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV): Car park control equipmentSoftware package and information systemsTraffic monitoring services
Delivery area: Not published
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04f74c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice

Submission deadline: —

Timeline

21 Mar 2025 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates

Planning notice published
21 Mar 2025, 12:22 GMT
Market engagement
19 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST
BCC are conducting a soft market test currently to discover options for a back-office system to manage the full life-cycle of all Penalty Charge Notices issued by the Council. This software is crucial for the enforcement of Bristol streets, bus lanes and Clean Air Zone and it’s essential we have a robust system that can efficiently deal with the complex, bespoke demands of this enforcement.
BCC have built a questionnaire which has been designed to help the Council understand the available functionality of software packages on the market. The system would manage the full lifecycle of a PCN including the issuing of the PCN, appeals against a charge (from informal appeals through to Traffic Penalty Tribunal cases) and closure of a case.
Today
28 Oct 2026
Contract startsin 245 days
1 Jul 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

Preliminary market engagement notice published
21 Mar 2025, 12:22 GMT
UK2

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

Bristol City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWXH-3837-PDTD Bristol City Council, P O Box 3176, BRISTOL, South West, BS3 9FSContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

Preliminary market engagement notice planningPreliminary market engagement noticeUK2Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender21 Mar 2025, 12:22 GMT