Official UK procurement notice
Enforcement Agents · UK public procurement notice
Authority: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe scope of the contract is to provide an enforcement service to take all necessary steps to collect unpaid Business Rates, Business Improvement Levy, Council Tax and unpaid Parking and Traffic warrants. There is also an option to extend the service to other debt types such as commercial rent, unpaid housing rent, and unpaid miscellaneous income debts.
The scope of the contract is further detailed in the Specification document.
It is the City’s intention to award contracts to the three top ranked bidders with the highest overall tender scores. The City’s Revenue’s team will work directly with the top two, and the 3rd placed bidder will be reserve supplier (used on a contingency basis), dependent on volume and performance of the top two. The City’s Parking Ticket team will work directly with each of the top 3 bidders. For the call-off process relating to the distribution of work across successful bidders, please see Appendix D of the service specification – Tender Specification document.
Parking enforcement will award cases equaling all three of the top scoring bidders.
This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal’ (cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.
The estimated contract value given at sections 31 and 32 is for the full duration of the contract including the maximum possible extensions. The estimated annual contract value is therefore £6,518,000.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 May 2032, 23:59 BST.
- No preliminary market engagement: The City has not conducted any Preliminary Market Engagement prior to the issuing of the Tender Notice, due to the following. Prior to the commencement of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA2023) in February, the department undertook informal market engagement with several leading suppliers in the industry. This engagement indicated that the scope of the services, as well as the expected outputs and deliverables, had not materially changed since the start of the current contract. Due to delays in procurement planning and the need to avoid a gap in service delivery, the department was unable to initiate and complete a formal Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) process in accordance with the PA2023. By the time the Act came into force, there was insufficient time to conduct a compliant PME process without jeopardising the timely award of a new contract. The department made the decision to proceed directly to tender to ensure continuity of service and to meet critical operational timelines.
CPV: Parking enforcement services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£6,518,000
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 (2)
- Technical Questions: 80%
- Responsible Procurement: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical Questions: Bidders will be evaluated on Technical Questions
- Responsible Procurement: Bidders will be evaluated on their responses to Responsible Procurement questions
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
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 May 2032
- First published
- 17 Jun 2025, 14:41 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2025, 09:59 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 20 Aug 2025
- Authority reference
itt_112 - Enforcement Agents- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-033007- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054e69Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 21 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 14 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal’ (cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.
Timeline
17 Jun 2025 → 25 Oct 2025 · 8 dates- Tender notice published17 Jun 2025, 14:41 BST
- Clarification questions by14 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline21 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by20 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
- Assessment summaries sent17 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published399 days ago18 Sept 2025, 09:59 BST
- Standstill ends388 days ago29 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts363 days ago25 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 17 Jun 2025- Tender notice published17 Jun 2025, 14:41 BSTUK4
- Contract award notice published18 Sept 2025, 09:59 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete18 Sept 2025, 09:59 BST
- Contract signature expected20 Oct 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDER Group Limited, MARSTON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED, Newlyn PLCjoint award25 Oct 2025 – 24 Oct 2030 · up to 24 Oct 2032Extensions: The duration of the contract is 5 years, subject to the right of teh City (at it's sole discretion) to exercise its right to extend the Contracts by upto 2 years. | £7,821,600 inc. VAT | 17 Sept 2025standstill to 29 Sept 2025 | Standstill |
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4final-stage tenders · 6 at stage one | 0 | 0 | — |
Who bid
- did not winEquita Ltd · North West England
- wonMarston Holdings Limited · West Midlands
- wonNewlyn PLC · South East England
- wonCDER Group · Greater London
Bidders as named on the Procurement Act 2023 award notice. “Won” means the bidder holds an award on this notice.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
4 commercial parties on the notice · 3 awarded- CDER GroupAwarded supplier
- Equita LtdBidder / tenderer
- Marston Holdings LimitedAwarded supplier
- Newlyn PLCAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender