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title: "Glasgow Bike Hire Scheme 2025"
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# Glasgow Bike Hire Scheme 2025

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/glasgow-bike-hire-scheme-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-047be4). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Glasgow City Council: "Glasgow Bike Hire Scheme 2025". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £1,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Glasgow City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/glasgow-city-council-ons-s12000049)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £1,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Bicycle locks, Bicycles, Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services, Installation of street furniture, Processing and clearing services (+4 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKM82
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-047be4`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/glasgow-bike-hire-scheme-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-047be4#tl-md)

## Description
Supplies & services contract .  The current cycle hire 7-year contract has an option to extend for a period of 12 months from September 2024 – September 2025 and this option will likely be exercised.  It is envisaged that the new contract will be awarded in February 2025 to allow for a 6-month mobilisation period and operational start date of September 2025.
The current Service contract has reached its legal capacity to expand further than the current scheme of 43 MACH Stations and 435 bikes.
We are therefore looking to assess alternative options for expanding the Glasgow Cycle Hire Scheme and these options require to be tested with the current market providers.
The Council is looking to engage with Cycle Hire Operators on various business models (see below) in order to ascertain, which one would be Most Economically Advantageous to the Council, whilst offering a Service Provider the opportunity to recoup any investment and secure a profit.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 34913510, 45233293, 48000000, 50000000, 60112000, 63712000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Glasgow City Council is conducting a market consultation exercise to gather information that will assist in the development of a procurement strategy and tender that will deliver a contract for a Mass Automated Cycle Hire Scheme.  This exercise will ...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F020907-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-07-09T11:29:39.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T08:04:06.504Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-047be4