Official UK procurement notice
National Parking Platform · National Parking Platform Limited for Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (Dec 2025)
Authority: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe National Parking Platform will have two principal purposes: to integrate on one platform the full range of major electronic parking payment providers (and to advertise the availability of parking facilities in the location of the consumer.
Both of these purposes are intended ultimately to benefit consumers, but this benefit will be achieved by the NPP providing services to local authorities and other providers of parking facilities Rather than, as at present, parking operators choosing, and contracting with, a single service provider and so a single parking app to manage electronic payments for use of their parking facilities, which users of those facilities have no choice but to utilise, the NPP will permit parking operators to receive payments via the full range of different parking apps and so permit users to use the app of their choice. Parking operators will receive parking fees which service providers have collected from customers less a commission which is retained by the service provider.
Parking operators will also be able to advertise their own facilities and provide live availability information through the NPP.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- 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
- 3 Dec 2025, 08:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Dec 2025, 08:53 GMT
- Authority reference
C1178- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079167- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ed91Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
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 to pay for parking with a wide range of parking apps.
The NPP 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. Nor does any other supplier have or be likely to obtain the cooperation of the main service providers, who are to be integral to the membership and management of the Company. Such cooperation would be essential to develop a competitor platform in the future. Therefore, the only alternative to contracting with the NPP would be to contract with a single service provider, which is what the vast majority of local authorities currently do. However, to contract with a single service provider is not a reasonable alternative to the superior and different service offered by the NPP.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 3 Dec 2025- Transparency notice published3 Dec 2025, 08:53 GMTUK5
- Contract signature expected2 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Parking Platform Limited17 Jan 2026 – 16 Jan 2028 · up to 16 Jan 2036Extensions: The initial term of the contract is two years. The contract can then be extended on an annual basis | £200,000 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NATIONAL PARKING PLATFORM LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender