Official UK procurement notice
Passenger Transport Open Framework
Authority: Kirklees Council (Local council)
The Open Framework is intended to be established to provide a range of passenger transport services, including Home to School Transport and other transport-related services, through a diverse network of approved Suppliers with relevant expertise and capabilities. The Open Framework will be divided into Lots, and it is anticipated that these will be categorised according to vehicle seating capacity and/or accessibility provisions rather than vehicle size.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Open Framework is intended to be established to provide a range of passenger transport services, including Home to School Transport and other transport-related services, through a diverse network of approved Suppliers with relevant expertise and capabilities.
The Open Framework will be divided into Lots, and it is anticipated that these will be categorised according to vehicle seating capacity and/or accessibility provisions rather than vehicle size. Suppliers may apply for all Lots that are relevant to the services they are able to provide.
CPV: Road transport services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 8 yrs from 1 Jul 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
- “Passenger Transport Open Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Kirklees Council buys Road transport services (CPV 6010), and who usually turns up
Kirklees Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Road transport services (CPV 6010) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. 111 known-size awards sit across 2 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. 127 known-location awards sit across 2 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 47 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid0% / 0%
2–37% / 26%
4–611% / 7%
7+83% / 67%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6010Published estimate£72m
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 36 past lots.
1 bid0%
2–344%
4–68%
7+47%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Nov 2026, 09:40 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 09:40 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105530- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b60bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published8 days ago6 Nov 2026, 09:40 GMT
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 110 days5 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 227 days1 Jul 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published6 Nov 2026, 09:40 GMTUK1
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender