Official UK procurement notice
Intention to Terminate PAN2598 - Passenger Transport Services DPS
Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLeicester City Council is seeking to procure passenger transport services. We are hereby
establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) from which we will procure the services as
described in the Specification. The DPS will be for five years and six months.
CPV: Taxi services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Market period
- 5 yrs 6 mo from 1 Feb 2022
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Council procures journeys for children, young people and adult service users, as…
The Council procures journeys for children, young people and adult service users, as well as for Council staff using taxi providers. These journeys are commonly planned e.g. trips to and from school or unplanned e.g. one-off journeys to an appointment.
Those who access our services using taxis may require additional support or supervision which must be provided through a passenger assistant and arranged by the taxi Provider. On some occasions a parent may be required to be the passenger assistant. Some of those who access our services using taxis have additional needs of the vehicle e.g. the size of vehicle or ramps and wheelchair accessibility or a need for the Driver and/or passenger assistant to have specialist training e.g. how to help someone with a medical condition such as epilepsy.
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).
- “Intention to Terminate PAN2598 - Passenger Transport Services DPS” 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 Leicester City Council buys Taxi services (CPV 6012), and who usually turns up
Leicester City 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: Taxi services (CPV 6012) →
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 East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.
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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 49 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.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid39% / 0%
2–324% / 0%
4–63% / 6%
7+33% / 94%
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
Our matching links this notice to “PAN2061 - Vulnerable Passenger Transport Services Framework” of this authority, but none of the 10 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1The Council procures journeys for children, young people and adult service users, as…CPV 6012Estimate not published
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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 bid4%
2–345%
4–615%
7+36%
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
HATS Group LtdLarge | £351m26 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 3 live · £145m 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. | 15% above n=19 |
| £99k1 awards in 36m · last 10 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £17m2 awards in 36m · last 19 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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
- First published
- 11 Oct 2021, 10:50 BST
- Last source update
- 3 May 2024, 12:07 BST
- Authority reference
DN539274- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-014336- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02dda1Find a Tender
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 Jul 2027, 20:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 Feb 2022 → 31 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Contract starts1 Feb 2022
- Notice published3 May 2024, 12:07 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 282 days · period end, not a bid countdown31 Jul 2027, 20:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 3 releases on Find a Tender- Deadline moved to 31 Jul 2027, 20:00 BST11 Oct 2021, 10:50 BST+2110 days · was 20 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST
Published amendments (2 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineIV.2.2 | 20 Oct 2021 | 31 Jul 2027 | +2110 d |
| — | TextTitle · II.1.1 | PAN2598 - Passenger Transport Services DPS | Intention to Terminate PAN2598 - Passenger Transport Services DPS | |
| — | TextShort Description · II.1.4 | Leicester City Council is seeking to procure passenger transport services. We are hereby establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) from which we will procure the services as described in the Specification. The DPS will be for five years and six months. | Leicester City Council is hereby giving notice of its termination of this DPS (PAN2598). The termination process will commence immediately upon the sending of this message, meaning the DPS Agreement will end on the 3rd August 2024. It is the intention of Leicester City Council to replace this DPS with a new DPS entitled ‘PAN3059 - Passenger Transport DPS’. Invitations to apply for this new DPS wil… | |
| — | Contract periodEnd Date · II.2.7.4 | 31 Jul 2027 | 3 Aug 2024 | -1092 d |
Please note the deadline for submission of initial Request to Participate (RTPs) remains 20th October 2021. Any RTPs submitted after this date/time will be deemed t be submitted on 1st February 2022 (the Commencement Date of the DPS).
Notice of Termination
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Construction and Technology Court (Queen's Bench Division)Review body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria