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Fleet Management Software

Buyer: Devon County Council →

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BuyerDevon County Council
StatusClosed
Deadline19 May 2026
Value£180,000
Published13 Apr 2026

What is being bought

The Safety Compliance & Fleet Team within the Transport Coordination Service are responsible for the safe management and operation of Devon County Council’s (DCC) vehicle fleet. This covers functions such as vehicle compliance (insurance & MOT), maintenance, lifecycle management, accident resolution and driver/escort compliance (safeguarding). DCC have a legal obligation to ‘operate a system of work which ensures the vehicles are road worthy at all times, in accordance with The Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness’. The service are looking to acquire a mature fleet management system which is proven in use by other organisations, and available with common pre-configured processes and workflows. The service currently manages a fleet of more than 340 vehicles and is seeking a cloud hosted software solution to support all aspects of fleet management. This will form the basis of Devon County Council’s future Fleet Management System.

Delivery location

UKK43, GB

Categories

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 72000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£180,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2026 to 30 Sept 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality ISIT — For stage one ISIT the quality is 100% (100%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (72000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 726,6961 median · 15.5 average (2,500 of 6,696 with a bid count)1.9 average (2,984 of 6,696 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKK4357 median · 7 average (3 of 5 with a bid count)1 average (3 of 5 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)4275 median · 6.6 average (9 of 427 with a bid count)1 average (9 of 427 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA, CPTPP
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleThe Authority considered that preliminary market engagement was not required in relation to the Contract because the service undertook light touch market research whereby they gathered enough detail to understand that there was solutions available to fulfil the service needs.
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-068092
Latest release ID033072-2026
Latest release timestampMon Apr 13 2026 08:43:04 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/033072-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-05-19T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-05-07T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-09-07T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsSuppliers can access the business opportunity via Supplying the South West Procurement portal at https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk. Register your expression of interest to the advert and then automatic access will be provided to the competition documentation, terms and conditions and any supporting information. This information can be downloaded for completion and/or questions completed online. Your submission can be started on the same system/page where you downloaded the documentation. The authority does not accept submission from any other method.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£180,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
13 Apr 2026tender033072-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
13 Apr 2026 · 033072-2026 · tender
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