Official UK procurement notice
Scheduled & Unscheduled Maintenance for Mercedes-Benz HGV Trucks
Authority: Wales & West Utilities Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWWU are intending to follow the Direct Award Procedure to appoint contracts with 4 Suppliers across the WWU geographical network to provide the services outlined below. These contracts will be with Mercedes-Benz approved garages who can provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
the suppliers will support a fleet of 55 HGV Grab Trucks across WWU geography (Wales, south and southwest England). These HGV's are 8 wheeled, 32 tonne grabs, and 12ft high so suitable premises needs to be available.
It is not expected that you will need to cover the entire WWU geography.
Due to the safety critical nature of our industry and the work we carry out, all electrical repairs and updates must be carried out by a Mercedes-Benz approved repairer and must have approved use of the Mercedes-Benz Uptime diagnostic tool.
Additional Requirements -
- The Supplier must be able to complete at least 75% of the activity themselves, and only outsource the 25% which may be mechanical only in nature. Therefore, the supplier must also have an appropriate sub contractor vetting process.
- The supplier must offer a mobile servicing option to conduct on-site repair and maintenance activities at WWU depots, where appropriate.
- The supplier must provide Operators-licence inspections and MOT preparation/testing as part of a single-visit service schedule.
- The supplier must meet all relevant health and safety, and waste management processes.
- The supplier must be able to provide regular reporting including spend broken down by service and vehicle, VOR time, service call out times and parts pricing tracker.
- The supplier must provide a call out service within the WWU geography
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of trucks
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Wales & West Utilities Limited buys Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011), and who usually turns up
Wales & West Utilities Limited’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: Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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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.
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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 63 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid31%
2–338%
4–620%
7+12%
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.
Below estimate22%
Within ±2%61%
Above estimate17%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 5011Published estimate£700k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 85 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid31%
2–338%
4–620%
7+12%
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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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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Apr 2026, 14:53 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Apr 2026, 14:53 BST
- Authority reference
WWU1552- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-038111- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068bc9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Apr 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published185 days ago27 Apr 2026, 14:53 BST
- Market engagement170 days ago11 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Should you believe that you're able to meet the requirements set out in this notice, please email wwuprocurement@wwutilities.co.uk with the following information -
- Are you a Mercedes-Benz approved garage? If yes, please provide evidence.
- Do you have authorised access to Mercedes-Benz diagnostic tool?
- What geography do you cover?
- Can your facility cater for the size of trucks which WWU operate as outlined in this notice?
Upon the closing date, WWU will review all responses and consider whether the Direct Award procedure remains appropriate.
- Contract starts28 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Apr 2026, 14:53 BSTUK2
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