Official UK procurement notice
NPP Parking Platform · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Peterborough City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract 1. Parking Operator Connection Agreement
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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Sept 2025, 15:27 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Oct 2025, 12:06 BST
- Authority reference
DN678995- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-062834- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a059Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
The Council can direct award a contract to NPP, without undertaking a competitive tender pursuant to Section 41 of the Act and Paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 of the Act.
Schedule 5 gives justifications of a direct award and under Paragraph 6 a direct award is justified if:
(a)due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and
(b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.
These conditions are satisfied because:
(a) The NPP is the only supplier which is currently able to supply the critical service of aggregating service providers to enable users of a parking operator's facilities to pay for parking with a wide range of parking apps. 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 the cooperation of the main parking service providers, who are integral to the membership and management of the platform owned by NPP. Such cooperation is essential to develop a competitor platform in the future.
(b)The only alternative to contracting with the NPP would be to contract with a single service provider, which is what the Council has done in the past. However, the Council is of the view that it is preferable for car park users (ie consumers) to use a variety of parking service providers in order to pay for parking, and therefore, a single service provider is not a reasonable alternative to the multi service provider offered by the NPP platform.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Oct 2025 → 7 Oct 2025 · 2 dates- Standstill ends374 days ago6 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published374 days ago7 Oct 2025, 12:06 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Sept 2025- Transparency notice published23 Sept 2025, 15:27 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published25 Sept 2025, 17:04 BSTUK6
- Contract details notice published7 Oct 2025, 12:06 BSTUK7
- Contract signature expected7 Oct 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Parking Platform LimitedSMENPP Parking Consortium7 Oct 2025 – 23 Sept 2027 · up to 22 Sept 2035Extensions: Initial Term 2 years with an option to extend up to a further 8 years in increments of 12 months thereafter. (total of 10 years) | £200,000 | 23 Sept 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
NPP Parking Consortium · National Parking Platform LimitedSME
- Signed
- 7 Oct 2025
- Value
- £200,000
- Period
- 7 Oct 2025 – 23 Sept 2027 · up to 22 Sept 2035 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- Initial Term 2 years with an option to extend up to a further 8 years in increments of 12 months thereafter. (total of 10 years)
4 agreed KPIs: Uptime · NPP Services Response Times · Customer Service Response …
- Uptime, The NPP Services shall be provided on a 24/7 basis every day of the year. The NPP shall maintain a service availability target of 99.8%, measured on a quarterly basis, excluding scheduled maintenance during Maintenance Hours. Any service interruption exceeding 4.38 hours per quarter shall constitute a service level breach, subject to the remedies specified in the Connection Contract.
- NPP Services Response Times, Normal response times shall be less than 10 seconds on each of the NPP end points. This level of response shall be provided 99.8% of the time the Services are available, calculated on a quarterly basis.
- Customer Service Response, The NPP Support Desk shall provide a Support Response to Support Requests submitted via the webpage as follows: • Emergency Support Requests (logged at any time) - 1 working hour from the time logged (based on the Emergency Out of Hours Service hours of operation) • Other Support Requests (other than Change Requests)- [2] working days from the time logged (based on the Normal Support Hours of operation), with an automated acknowledgment sent within 1 hour of receipt. Support Requests received outside of Normal Support Hours shall be deemed received at the start of the next Business Day. • Configuration Requests (changes to configuration, e.g. adding a Location, notification of tariff changes) will also receive an automated acknowledgment sent within 1 hour of receipt. Configuration Requests shall require three weeks notice (to ensure that all Service Providers have time to test and implement the change), More urgent configuration changes may be requested but no guarantee will be given that such changes will be made more quickly.
- Maintenance, Routine maintenance Any downtime due to routine maintenance shall be minimised as far as possible. Any downtime that is required shall be: • Notified to all Clients and Connected Suppliers as far in advance as possible (at least 1 week); • Restricted to a period between 22:00 and 06:00 (Maintenance Hours) where possible; and • Not counted against the system uptime if completed within the Maintenance Hours. Emergency maintenance Emergency maintenance shall be restricted to resolving any issue that, in the opinion of the NPP, is either restricting the service being provided (e.g. significantly degrading response times) or creating an unacceptable risk of full or partial loss of service. Emergency maintenance shall be: • Notified to all Clients and Connected Suppliers as far in advance as possible (at least 1 hour). • Restricted to a period between 18:00 and 06:00 where possible, however a high priority situation may result in emergency maintenance being carried out at any time. Docusign Envelope ID: B5C2D440-70FA-4ED6-AED7-B94C958E640E NPP Service Specification NPP Service Specification Version 1.2 Page 14 of 38 • Counted against uptime if the Emergency Maintenance event occurs outside of the Maintenance Hours and causes a service disruption. Notification The Emergency Notifications system shall be used to notify the start and end of all maintenance events.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NPP Consortium 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