Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 8 May 2026, 08:42 BST

Official UK procurement notice

EF0108 Framework agreement · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Fife Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServices
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 18 Jun 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Fife Council is seeking to establish a framework agreement for the provision of vehicle recovery services for its fleet of vehicles and plant. The fleet comprises over 1000 vehicles and plant, and includes light vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes and heavy vehicles up to 44 tonnes.

CPV: Breakdown and recovery services for cars · Breakdown and recovery services for commercial vehicles

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “EF0108 Framework agreement” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Fife Council buys Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011), and who usually turns up

Fife 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: Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerFife Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 of 18 known-size awards · market: CPV 5011 · Scotland, n=30
78%33%

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 Scotland.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 15 of 17 known-location awards · market: CPV 5011 · Scotland, n=17
88%6%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 5011 · UK-wide, n=18
—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 3 of 16 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5011 · UK-wide, n=31
19%39%

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

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer6 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 50
17% had one bid
The market12 lots with bid counts · CPV 5011 · Scotland
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 0%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 58%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
4–633% / 33%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
7+17% / 8%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 12 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

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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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 5011Estimate not published
Expected competition
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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. The bar shows 12 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 12 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 12 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–358%
7 of 12 similar past lots received 2–3 (58%).
4–633%
4 of 12 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+8%
1 of 12 similar past lots received 7+ (8%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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 · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 May 2026, 08:42 BST
Last source update
8 May 2026, 08:42 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-042229
Classification (CPV)
Breakdown and recovery services for carsBreakdown and recovery services for commercial vehicles
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM72)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06940c Find a Tender

Publisher note: Attached to this notice is an information document with information on the requirement and the procurement process. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=830522. (SC Ref:830522)

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

8 May 2026 → 18 Jun 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published168 days ago
    8 May 2026, 08:42 BST
  2. Tender notice expected127 days ago
    18 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST

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

Fife Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Fife House, North Street, Glenrothes, Scotland, KY7 5LTContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.