Official UK procurement notice
National Parking Platform · National Parking Platform Limited for East Hertfordshire District Council (Oct 2025)
Authority: East Hertfordshire District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNPP aggregates service providers and facilitates the use by consumers of a wide range of service providers to park at a car park operated by the contracting authority, and the advertising of facilities and availability information in that authority's area.
Expected cost to the authority is £10,000 per annum however the contract length is undetermined.
The NPP is the only supplier which is currently able to supply the critical service of aggregating service providers so as to enable users of a parking operator's facilities, in this case East Hertfordshire District Council, to pay for parking with a wide range of parking apps. NPP ltd is to be the recipient of a grant by the Department for Transport ("DfT") of the intellectual property and other assets necessary to operate the NPP (which DfT had commissioned and developed). No other supplier will benefit from that grant and no other supplier has undertaken the work necessary to develop a similar platform independently of DfT
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - without competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Oct 2025, 13:49 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Dec 2025, 11:59 GMT
- Authority reference
EHC9999-298- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-086271- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d371Find a Tender
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Oct 2025- Transparency notice published24 Oct 2025, 13:49 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published11 Nov 2025, 10:34 GMTUK6
- Contract signature expected24 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published29 Dec 2025, 11:59 GMTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Parking Platform LimitedSME25 Nov 2025 – 24 Nov 2027 · up to 24 Nov 2035Extensions: Can be extended annually at the councils discretion | £120,000 inc. VAT | 6 Nov 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · National Parking Platform LimitedSME
- Signed
- 1 Dec 2025
- Value
- £120,000 inc. VAT
- Period
- 16 Jan 2026 – 15 Jan 2028 · up to 15 Jan 2036 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- Contract can be extended yearly whilst it still can't be competed for technical reasons
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NATIONAL PARKING PLATFORM LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender