Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement -Educational Transport Services Framework
Authority: NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority wishes to engage suitably qualified providers of Private Hire, Hackney Carriage, for the provision of Education Transport. The Authority also wishes to engage suitably qualified Public Service Vehicles (PSV) operators for the provision of Education Transport. The routes and destinations for this transport provision will vary and may also be to and from locations outside of the Authority’s geographical boundaries. Detailed specifications and routes will be issued to providers to bid for as part of the call-off process. 3.4 As part of the tender process to establish the framework bidders will be asked to confirm that they can meet the following requirements from the commencement of the framework. Any bidders that will be deemed non-compliant and rejected from the process:
- Holding appropriate licences as a Provider and/or for the class of vehicle and drivers to be used for the provision of transport
- Every vehicle should be a Private Hire/Hackney Carriage Vehicle licensed by official hackney carriage licensing section for all vehicles OR a Public Service Vehicle PSV licensed by the relevant licensing Authority.
- Any minibus provided should be suitable for the number of passengers being carried.,
- Each driver has obtained a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance before providing the service
- All drivers hold the relevant licences to enable them to drive the vehicle and if driving a tail-lift minibus, hold a valid certificate of competence for its use, issued by a registered trainer.
- Having appropriate vetting of staff and training in place for staff to ensure children are safeguarded
CPV: Road transport services · Safety education services · Special education services · Taxi services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 3 yrs 11 mo · up to 8 yrs from 30 Jun 2026
The lotProcurement structure
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Preliminary Market Engagement -Educational Transport Services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL buys Road transport services (CPV 6010), and who usually turns up
NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Road transport services (CPV 6010) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. 100 known-location awards sit across 4 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
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The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
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2–340% / 27%
4–60% / 8%
7+60% / 65%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Lot #1CPV 6012Published estimate£12m
This lot is listed as CPV 6012. The table above uses the notice category.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 120 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid3%
2–316%
4–619%
7+62%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- 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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Dec 2025, 18:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 15 Dec 2025, 18:00 GMT
- Authority reference
100106205- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-083076- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f623Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
15 Dec 2025 → 30 Jun 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published316 days ago15 Dec 2025, 18:00 GMT
- Market engagement280 days ago19 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Tender notice expected238 days ago2 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts119 days ago30 Jun 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Dec 2025, 18:00 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