Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 9 Jun 2026, 12:31 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Request for Information and Invitation to a Meet the Buyer Event for System Solutions to Deliver Integrated Transport Capabilities

Authority: The North Yorkshire Council (Local council)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£480,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Apr 2031 · up to 30 Apr 2033 with extensions · starts 1 May 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

North Yorkshire Council (the Authority) is requesting information from suppliers to help determine the scope and feasibility of its requirement, to understand the range of potential solutions available in the market, and to inform any potential future procurement exercise for a Passenger Transport System (the System). The Authority is also inviting interested suppliers to a Meet the Buyer Event where the Authority would like to engage with interested suppliers further as part of a question-and-answer session to gather feedback on the feasibility of its proposal, the proposed procurement approach, as well as any technical queries. The Authority have been undertaking work internally to understand the scope, business processes, customer journey, and interfaces/interactions that the existing in-house System currently provides (in addition to what it should but does not provide). The Authority is not looking to replace the System like for like and is instead interested in one or more commercial off the shelf solutions that can provide one or more capabilities that will work together to deliver a coherent replacement.

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 May 2027 – 30 Apr 2031 (4 yrs) · up to 30 Apr 2033 with extensions
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How The North Yorkshire Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

The North Yorkshire Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerThe North Yorkshire Council · division 48
The marketSoftware package and information systems (CPV 48) · Yorkshire and the Humber
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 8 known-size awards · market: division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=447
50%30%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 17 known-location awards · market: division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=545
24%13%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=32
—62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 14 of 21 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=664
67%66%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer49 lots with bid counts · all categories
31% had one bid
The market36 lots with bid counts · division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid31% / 14%
Buyer: 15 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 36 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 28%
Buyer: 16 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 36 lots with published bid counts.
4–618% / 33%
Buyer: 9 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 36 lots with published bid counts.
7+18% / 25%
Buyer: 9 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 36 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer42 lots with estimate and award · all categories
43% below estimate
The market17 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber
71% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate43% / 71%
Buyer: 18 of 42 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 12 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%45% / 12%
Buyer: 19 of 42 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate12% / 18%
Buyer: 5 of 42 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 4848 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£480k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

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 36 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 36 similar lots
1 bid14%
5 of 36 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–328%
10 of 36 similar past lots received 2–3 (28%).
4–633%
12 of 36 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+25%
9 of 36 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £480k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
9 Jun 2026, 12:31 BST
Last source update
9 Jun 2026, 12:31 BST
Authority reference
166-NYC-RS
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-054245
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b0cd Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Jun 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published141 days ago
    9 Jun 2026, 12:31 BST
  2. Market engagement116 days ago
    3 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_… ↗ The opportunity can be accessed via the Authority's eTendering portal Yortender and searching for ID: 100111340. The Authority is inviting suppliers to complete and undertake a request for information, as well as attend a meet the buyer event. The Authority reserves the right to undertake further engagement with suppliers following the meet the buyer event in the form of an additional request for information, 1:1 discovery session or other form of engagement. This would be for the continued purpose of: 1) developing the authority’s requirements and approach to the procurement; 2) designing a procedure, conditions of participation or award criteria; 3) preparing the tender notice and associated tender documents; 4) identifying suppliers that may be able to supply the goods, services or works required.

  3. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 5 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 184 days
    1 May 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Jun 2026, 12:31 BST
    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

The North Yorkshire Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNXY-8263-XCNL County Hall, Racecourse Lane,, Northallerton, Yorkshire & Humber, DL7 8ADContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure