Official UK procurement notice
Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Passenger Transport (Taxis and Minibuses)
Authority: South Tyneside Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) will cover the Council's requirements for taxi and minibus passenger transport services, including passenger assistants (escorts), where appropriate, and will encompass home to/from school and college transport, home to/from care transport, Looked After Children, people with additional needs, including complex needs and/or challenging behaviour, other vulnerable people, and councillors and officers of the Council and any other transport requirement as authorised by the Authorised Officer.
- Recurrence: June 2027
CPV: Social work and related services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1South Tyneside Council is procuring this DPS on behalf of itself, and their partner…RenewalPublished value£12,000,000
South Tyneside Council is procuring this DPS on behalf of itself, and their partner organisations including any:
- Public or private entity (including limited companies) in which the Council has a shareholding or interest;
- Any Maintained and Academy schools (as defined in the Academies Act 2010) within the Borough of South Tyneside.
- South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group, including any successor;
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, including any successor.
The majority of contracts awarded under this DPS will be for the transportation of approximately 694 children and young people to and from school and college, 100 of whom attend 34 schools outside of the borough of South Tyneside, but within the North East.
Other transport needs also include, but not limited to, the transportation of Looked After Children, people with additional needs, including complex needs and/or challenging behaviour, other vulnerable people, and councillors and officers of the Council and any other transport requirement as authorised by the Authorised Officer.
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
All operators and drivers must have relevant licences and insurances in place as set out in the Service Specification.
- “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 South Tyneside Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
South Tyneside 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: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
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 North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North East England.
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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 75 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%
2–38%
4–68%
7+83%
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 #1South Tyneside Council is procuring this DPS on behalf of itself, and their partner…CPV 8530Published estimate£12m
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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 bid1%
2–320%
4–629%
7+51%
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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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Intrahealth LimitedLarge | £75m13 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | 2 live · £14m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 |
| £7.3m8 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £80k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £13m13 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 5 live · £2.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=7 | |
| £5.8m8 awards in 36m · last 13 months ago | 2 live · £877k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 20% below n=2 | |
ST. JOHN AMBULANCELarge | £2.1m8 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 4 live · £819k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 9% above n=2 |
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · June 2027
- First published
- 5 May 2021, 11:59 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Oct 2025, 10:50 BST
- Authority reference
DN533107- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-067718- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029ce1Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 31 May 2027, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
14 Jun 2021 → 31 May 2027 · 3 dates- Invitations to tender expected14 Jun 2021, 00:00 BST
- Notice published362 days ago23 Oct 2025, 10:50 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 223 days · period end, not a bid countdown31 May 2027, 17:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Jul 2021- Published value published: £12,000,00027 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
- Status changed to active27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
- Procurement method changed27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
- Deadline moved to 19 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST-2233 days · was 31 May 2027, 17:00 BST
Published amendments (3 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
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| — | DeadlineIV.2.2 | 19 Apr 2021 | 31 May 2027 | +2233 d |
| — | TextReference Number: OPEN202465 · II.1.1 | — | The DPS is now live on the NEPO OPEN System -https://www.nepo.org/open It was originally advertised on the NEPO Proactis portal, however, this no longer available on there and now advertised on the OPEN system. | |
| — | TextDescription of renewals · II.2.7 | This DPS is operational for 6 years, during this time suppliers may apply to join the DPS. Once on this DPS list, suppliers will be invited to tender for all the council's transport requirements. Contracts issued during the operation of the DPS are likely to be between 1-3 year duration and therefore renewable. Passenger transport is an ongoing requirement and once this DPS expires (June 2027) a r… | This DPS is operational for 8 years, during this time suppliers may apply to join the DPS. Once on this DPS list, suppliers will be invited to tender for all the council's transport requirements. Contracts issued during the operation of the DPS are likely to be between 1-3 year duration and therefore renewable. Passenger transport is an ongoing requirement and once this DPS expires (23rd of Februa… | |
| — | TextTime limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate · IV.2.2 | — | Under the new PA23, the DPS which was set up under PCR15 has been extended to 23rd of February 2029. |
3 amendments published without a description.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2021-05: 1 release · 5 May 2021
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria