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Published 20 Jun 2024, 08:11 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Minicab and specially adapted vehicles for the clients of Adults' Social Services and Childrens' Services

Authority: London Borough of Wandsworth (Local council)

Dynamic marketServicesRestricted procedure
Dynamic market estimate£2,600,000market-wide estimate, not attributable revenue
Admission open until 20 Jun 203412:00 BST · period end, not a bid countdown

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The London Boroughs of Richmond and Wandsworth (the “Councils”) are seeking qualified and high-quality suppliers for the provision of minicab and wheelchair accessible transport with regular assigned drivers for clients of both Adult Social Services and Children’s Services Departments within both Councils. This is a republication of a previous notice, found here: ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/5… ↗. The DPS will now be administered through the Atamis Portal. All interested suppliers will need to create an Atamis Supplier Account for their organisation, including all current suppliers, before accessing the tender documents. The aim of the DPS is to provide reliable, high-quality and cost effective transport for service users of both Councils. The DPS is being established in accordance with the Restricted Procedure under the PCR 2015. The DPS has been split into 5 Lots. All applicants that meet the selection criteria of the Lot/s they apply for will be admitted to the DPS. Job/journey orders will be awarded to suppliers through a mini-competition process. The estimated annual spend through the DPS is £2.6m.<br/><br/>The Contract under the DPS will be split into 5 lots as follows:<br/>Lot 1: Regular Assigned Driver Only<br/>Lot 2: Regular Assigned Driver with Passenger Attendant<br/>Lot 3: Wheelchair Accessible Transport with Regular Assigned Driver<br/>Lot 4: Wheelchair Accessible Transport with Regular Assigned Driver and Passenger Assistant<br/>Lot 5: Out of hours (5pm to 9am) Monday to Friday and at Weekends with Regular/Assigned Driver and Passenger Assistant as required and the provision of ad hoc and emergency journeys.<br/><br/>Tenders may be submitted for all lots.

CPV: Taxi services

How this dynamic market works

From the published notice
Type
Dynamic market

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1All information available in tender docs on AtamisPublished value£2,600,000
Delivery: London · London Borough of Wandsworth
Variant bids: not allowed

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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
  • “Minicab and specially adapted vehicles for the clients of Adults'…” 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 London Borough of Wandsworth buys Taxi services (CPV 6012), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Wandsworth’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) →

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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 buyerLondon Borough of Wandsworth · this authority
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 6012 · Greater London, n=41
—98%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

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 Greater London.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 6012 · Greater London, n=13
—0%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

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: 18 decided notices · market: CPV 6012 · UK-wide, n=7
130 days61 days

Half of these awards were announced within 130 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: CPV 6012 · UK-wide, n=32
—3%

No awards recorded for this authority in this market.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer7 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market19 lots with bid counts · CPV 6012 · Greater London
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
2–357% / 0%
Buyer: 4 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
4–629% / 16%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 84%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 16 of 19 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 #1All information available in tender docs on AtamisCPV 6012118 monthsPublished estimate£2.6m
Expected competition
i

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.

5expected bids1% chance of a single bid
forecast from 4 past contests
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid1%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 1%. This is a forecast.
2–334%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 34%. This is a forecast.
4–634%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 34%. This is a forecast.
7+31%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 31%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.
SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
1 panel places
£4.7m16 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago6 live · £4.3m
i

Public 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.

9% above n=1
1 panel places
£520k33 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago7 live · £11m
i

Public 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.

no comparable pairs
3 panel places
£430k24 awards in 36m · last 19 months agoNone on fileno comparable pairs
1 win in Greater London1 panel places
1 awards in 36m · last 32 months agoNone on fileno comparable pairs
1 panel places
1 awards in 36m · last 28 months agoNone on fileno 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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
20 Jun 2024, 08:11 BST
Last source update
9 Dec 2025, 17:09 GMT
Authority reference
954
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081230
Classification (CPV)
Taxi services
Delivery area
London (UKI34)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-047154 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Apply via portal
Submission portal named on this notice: portal not identified
Language: EN

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://lb-wandsworth.my.salesforce-sites.com/?searchtype=Projects ↗

Requests to participate (first stage)
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Admission period ends
20 Jun 2034, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
—
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
180 days from the deadline
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

9 Dec 2025 → 20 Jun 2034 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published317 days ago
    9 Dec 2025, 17:09 GMT
  2. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  3. Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown
    20 Jun 2034, 12:00 BST

Notice history

5 releases on Find a Tender
Published amendments (4)

Registration instructions:To obtain further information, including all documentation, please follow these steps:1. Please register for Atamis here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk2. Refer to our open projects page here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.salesforce-sites.com/?SearchType=Projects3. Locate 'Minicab and specially adapted vehicles (DPS)' an…

Registration instructions: To obtain further information, including all documentation, please follow these steps:1. Please register for Atamis here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk2. Refer to our open projects page here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.salesforce-sites.com/?SearchType=Projects3. Locate 'Minicab and specially adapted vehicles (DPS)' a…

Registration instructions: To obtain further information, including all documentation, please follow these steps:1. Please register for Atamis here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk. 2. Refer to our open projects page here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.salesforce-sites.com/?SearchType=Projects. 3. Locate 'Minicab and specially adapted vehicles (DPS…

Registration instructions: To obtain further information, including all documentation, please follow these steps: 1. Please register for Atamis here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk 2. Refer to our open projects page here: https://lb-wandsworth.my.salesforce-sites.com/?SearchType=Projects 3. Locate 'Minicab and specially adapted vehicles (DPS)…

Routine re-releases (5)
  • 2025-09: 1 release · 25 Sept 2025
  • 2024-06: 1 release · 20 Jun 2024

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

London Borough of Wandsworth

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street,, London, London, SW18 2PUContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Cabinet OfficeMediation body LondonContact email
  • Royal Court of JusticeReview bodyReview contact point LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria