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Published 21 Mar 2025, 12:27 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Penalty Charge Notice System (Bristol) - Soft Market Test

Official notice

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 equipment48000000 Software package and information systems63712710 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, 12:27 GMT
Last source update
21 Mar 2025, 12:27 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010654
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-04f750 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 Mar 2025 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    21 Mar 2025, 12:27 GMT
  2. 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.

    The engagement period ends at 12:00 on 18th April 2025. Please ensure all soft market testing questionnaires are submitted via ProContract which is linked in this notice.

  3. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 245 days
    1 Jul 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    21 Mar 2025, 12:27 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