Official UK procurement notice
Mobile Cycle Hub Delivery Partner
Authority: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe purpose of the Mobile Cycle Hub Van, also known as the Journey Matters Project, is to promote sustainable travel, improve access to cycling, and enhance health and wellbeing across Rotherham. By offering free cycle maintenance, adult training, and a flexible cycle loan scheme, the project aims to remove barriers to cycling and encourage more residents and workers to adopt active travel. This initiative, owned and operated by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC), has been successfully running for nearly a decade and continues to deliver high-impact services through a mobile, community-focused approach.
The scope of the project includes:
- Asset Management: Operation of a fully branded mobile hub van and a fleet of approximately 180 bikes (including electric bikes), all owned by RMBC.
Service Delivery:
- Dr Bike Sessions: On-site cycle maintenance and repairs.
- Adult Cycle Training: Delivered in compliance with Bikeability standards.
- Cycle Loan Scheme: Free short-term bike hire (up to one month), including delivery and collection from residents' homes.
Operational Staffing:
- Provision of 3 skilled staff members, including qualified cycle mechanics and trainers.
- Additional hourly-paid support for high-demand Dr Bike sessions (up to 200 hours/year).
- A Bikeability qualified trainer available for up to 250 hours/year.
Logistics & Equipment:
- Use of a large, long wheelbase van with appropriate branding.
- IT and communications equipment to manage bookings, logistics, and reporting.
- Delivery and collection of bikes and accessories from a central store at Riverside House.
Innovation & Efficiency:
- Exploration of cost-saving and efficiency improvements, particularly around home delivery logistics.
CPV: Bicycles · Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council buys Bicycles (CPV 3443), and who usually turns up
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Bicycles (CPV 3443) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 68 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid39% / 33%
2–339% / 17%
4–617% / 50%
7+6% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate25% / 60%
Within ±2%75% / 20%
Above estimate0% / 20%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 3443Published estimate£677k
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1 bid22%
2–326%
4–644%
7+7%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Dec 2025, 15:38 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Dec 2025, 15:38 GMT
- Authority reference
23-061- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-082136- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f424Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Dec 2025 → 27 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published314 days ago11 Dec 2025, 15:38 GMT
- Market engagement289 days ago5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
This notice is issued to provide information a market engagement opportunity only.
All of Rotherham Council's procurement opportunities are published on YORtender. To bid for this opportunity when it becomes live your organisation will need to be registered to the portal. You can register your organisation here: yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗
All suppliers who wish to bid for Rotherham Council procurement opportunities must be registered on the Central Digital Platform, with all supplier information submitted and kept up to date.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) are keen to understand the market options and availability for an upcoming procurement for a Mobile Cycle Hub Delivery Partner.
This market engagement therefore seeks to gather any knowledge and data that potential suppliers can provide in terms of a Mobile Cycle Hub Delivery Partner.
All costs associated with providing a response to the market engagement must be borne by the Supplier. RMBC will not contribute in any way to meeting the production costs of any response.
No down-selection of potential providers will take place as a consequence of any responses to this market engagement.
Engagement in this Market Engagement (ME) exercise is via a questionnaire published on the tendering portal YORtender at the following link: yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗
All correspondence in relation to this ME will be carried out via the YORtender portal. Potential providers may raise questions or seek clarification regarding any aspect of this document at any time prior to the response deadline. Questions must be submitted using the 'Messaging' function on YORtender in sufficient time to allow the Council to formulate and distribute a response at least 2 calendar days before the due date for the return of this ME.
Submissions to be returned via the YORtender portal by 17:00 on 5th January 2026.
- Tender notice expected268 days ago26 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts178 days ago27 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Dec 2025, 15:38 GMTUK2
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender