Official UK procurement notice
Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Passenger Transport
Authority: Kirklees Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKirklees Council are seeking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System ("DPS") for the provision of Passenger Transport Services under which interested economic Operators can become eligible to bid to provide specific Service Contracts or 'Routes'.
CPV: Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver · Non-scheduled passenger transport · Public road transport services · Special-purpose road passenger-transport services · Taxi services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The Council is responsible for arranging home to school transport to schools and…RenewalPublished value£30,000,000
The Council is responsible for arranging home to school transport to schools and colleges for Children and Young People with special education needs and disabilities (SEND). In addition, the Council also arranges transport for respite/short breaks and for adults to attend local day centres. Overall, the Service comprises over 400,000 journeys annually.
The Council's Home to School Transport Service employs approximately 180 Passenger Assistants who ensure that Children and Adults are safely and comfortably transported to various locations within, and on occasions outside, the Kirklees District.
The Services comprise of the following requirements:
a) Route transportation of Children / Adults / Passenger Assistants to schools, colleges and day centre locations and other venues, and either back home again or to another designated point as specifically set out in each Route Sheet/ instruction
b) Interim Cover of new journeys which are likely to continue for some time and which may eventually be converted into Routes at the discretion of the Council.
c) Emergency Provision for Service requirements at short notice (tender return date reduced to 1 day)
d) Ad-hoc Provision for occasional Service requirements.
The estimated cumulative annual value for the Contracts potentially called off under this DPS is six million Pounds Sterling (£6,000,000). It is anticipated that the majority of Contracts awarded under this DPS will each have an individual value of between one thousand Pounds Sterling (£1,000) and forty thousand Pounds Sterling (£40,000).
This DPS is anticipated to commence on 1st June 2023 for a period of three (3) years up to 31st May 2026, with a provision to extend the DPS for up to two (2) further one (1) year periods (the "DPS Period"), subject to continued availability of eligible Operators continuing to meet the requirements and demands of the Service.
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).
- Suitability
The economic operators' request to participate on this DPS will be assessed against their responses to the
minimum selection criteria within the Selection Questionnaire ("SQ") in the request to participate submission
document, which is available to download at yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗
- “Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Passenger Transport” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Kirklees Council buys Taxi services (CPV 6012), and who usually turns up
Kirklees Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Taxi services (CPV 6012) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 30 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–38% / 0%
4–610% / 20%
7+81% / 80%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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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.
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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 #1The Council is responsible for arranging home to school transport to schools and…CPV 6012Published estimate£30m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–32%
4–64%
7+94%
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £99k1 awards in 36m · last 10 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £17m2 awards in 36m · last 19 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
One2One CarsSME | — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 31 Mar 2023, 14:53 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Apr 2023, 12:48 BST
- Authority reference
KMCTS-018- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-011807- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03b7d5Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
Economic Operators who are unsuccessful at the SQ stage shall be informed by the Contracting Authority as soon as possible after the decision is made as to the reasons why the application to join the DPS was unsuccessful.
If an economic Operator requires any additional information following this initial de-briefing,this should be requested via the messaging function within yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗
If an appeal regarding the decision to award a position on the DPS has not been successfully resolved, then the public contracts Regulations 2015(SI 2015/102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules
to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be started within 30 days beginning with the date when the aggrieved party first knew or sought to have grounds for starting the proceedings had risen. The Court may extend the time limited for starting proceedings where the Court considers that there is a good reason for doing so, but not so as to permit proceedings to be started more than
3 months after that date. Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order for any document to be amended and may award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order for a fine to be paid, and /or order the duration of the contract to be shortened.
If however the contract has been concluded, the Court may only award damages or, where the contract award procedures
have not been followed correctly, declare the contract to be ineffective.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via EU-Supply (CTM)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 31 May 2028, 13:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
25 Apr 2023 → 31 May 2028 · 2 dates- Notice published25 Apr 2023, 12:48 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown31 May 2028, 13:00 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextII.1.1 | Reference Number KMCTS-018 | Reference Number KMCTS-019 |
1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria