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Published 27 Apr 2026, 12:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Car Share Scheme - Market Engagement

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Wokingham Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesBelow threshold
Sectors: Transport Equipment & Vehicles (34)Transport & Passenger Services (60) 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 2 yrsends 1 Oct 2028 · starts 30 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Wokingham Borough Council is looking to engage with the market to discuss a future opportunity relating to a Car Share Scheme within Wokingham Town Centre.

The key aims of our market engagement are to:

  • Gain an understanding of your experience, capability and contract management of Car Share Schemes
  • Understand more about how the service is run and the commercials
  • See who in the market would be interested in taking part in a procurement

The engagement is in the form of a questionnaire where suppliers can review a series of engagement questions and respond to them within the questionnaire.

To register interest, please complete a copy of the Market Engagement Questionnaire and return to Wokingham Borough Council via ProContract, by 5pm on Monday 18th May 2026.

All relevant correspondence will be managed through the Council’s e-procurement solution – ProContract.

CPV: Passenger cars · Road transport services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrs
Contract period: 30 Sept 2026 – 1 Oct 2028 (2 yrs)
34110000 Passenger cars60100000 Road transport services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Wokingham Borough Council buys Passenger cars (CPV 3411), and who usually turns up

Wokingham Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Passenger cars (CPV 3411) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerWokingham Borough Council · all categories
The marketPassenger cars (CPV 3411)
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: 13 of 18 known-size awards · market: CPV 3411 · South East England (authority’s region), n=8
72%13%

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.

Here, local means registered in South East England (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 8 known-location awards · market: CPV 3411 · South East England (authority’s region), n=15
88%60%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 3411 · UK-wide, n=8
—54 days

Half of these awards were announced within 54 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 1 of 30 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3411 · South East England (authority’s region), n=19
3%47%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer8 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market26 lots with bid counts · CPV 3411 · UK-wide
15% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 15%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 26 lots with published bid counts.
2–338% / 31%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 26 lots with published bid counts.
4–650% / 46%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 26 lots with published bid counts.
7+13% / 8%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 26 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer3 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market14 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3411 · UK-wide
36% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate36%
Market: 5 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%36%
Market: 5 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29%
Market: 4 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 341124 monthsEstimate not published
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 35 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet31% single-bid risk
Past bids on 35 similar lots
1 bid31%
11 of 35 similar past lots received 1 bid (31%).
2–337%
13 of 35 similar past lots received 2–3 (37%).
4–617%
6 of 35 similar past lots received 4–6 (17%).
7+14%
5 of 35 similar past lots received 7+ (14%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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, 12:29 BST
Last source update
27 Apr 2026, 12:29 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-037998
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Passenger carsRoad transport services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068b87 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Apr 2026 → 30 Sept 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published176 days ago
    27 Apr 2026, 12:29 BST
  2. Market engagement155 days ago
    18 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    Wokingham Borough Council is looking to engage with the market to discuss a future opportunity relating to a Car Share Scheme within Wokingham Town Centre.

    The key aims of our market engagement are to:

    • Gain an understanding of your experience, capability and contract management of Car Share Schemes
    • Understand more about how the service is run and the commercials
    • See who in the market would be interested in taking part in a procurement

    The engagement is in the form of a questionnaire where suppliers can review a series of engagement questions and respond to them within the questionnaire.

    To register interest, please complete a copy of the Market Engagement Questionnaire and return to Wokingham Borough Council via ProContract, by 5pm on Monday 18th May 2026.

    All relevant correspondence will be managed through the Council’s e-procurement solution – ProContract.

  3. Contract starts21 days ago
    30 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 Apr 2026, 12:29 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

Wokingham Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNTM-6852-HGRP Civic Offices, Shute End, Wokingham, South East, RG40 1BNContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure