Official UK procurement notice
818NC Coach Hire — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Leeds Beckett University (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLeeds Beckett University requires coaches for staff and students to use throughout the year for various trips and events. Coaches will be required on weekdays and at weekends, during office hours, evenings and occasionally overnight.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Leeds:-Hire-of-buses-and-coaches-with-driver./856G6FQCVA
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/respond/856G6FQCVA
CPV: Hire of buses and coaches with driver
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework · open framework scheme (admission reopens)
- Call-offs
- every call-off is a further competition among the appointed suppliers
- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Jan 2027
- Scheme runs until
- 31 Dec 2030
Published description of the framework
We would invite quotes for each trip from all suppliers on the framework and select the cheapest to fulfil the trip.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£872,000
- Value
- £872,000 exc. VAT · £872,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- Vehicles — 20%
- Customer Service — 15%
- Health & Safety — 15%
- Price — 40%
- Social Value — 10%
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Leeds Beckett University buys Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver (CPV 6017) — and who usually turns up
Leeds Beckett University’s own published record, next to the Yorkshire and the Humber market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver (CPV 6017) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Leeds Beckett University
framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 15 in all categories (4 without competition)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 37 lots. All 37 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 37 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 14 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 11 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 42 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 15 notices.
Yorkshire and the Humber · Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver (CPV 6017)
framework/DPS notices delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber in 36 months: 13 in CPV 6017 (11 competed, 1 route not published) · 57 in division 60 (44 competed, 12 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6017), last 36 months: 26 lots. 21 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 5 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6017), last 36 months: 26 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6017), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6017), last 36 months: 21 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6017), last 36 months: 17 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 14 lots (all categories), applied to the £872,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Open framework scheme
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 10:56 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 10:56 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07807eFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Appointment period ends
- 4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed5 Oct 2026, 10:56 BST
- Clarification questions byin 25 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 30 days · period end, not a bid countdown4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 45 days18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 88 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Oct 2026, 10:56 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender