Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement - Bus Fleet Decarbonisation Strategy
Authority: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Local council)
LCRCA is progressing the transition of the Liverpool City Region bus fleet towards a zero-emission operation. As part of this programme, LCRCA has approximately £50 million of TCR1 funding available for investment in fleet decarbonisation.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLCRCA is progressing the transition of the Liverpool City Region bus fleet towards a zero-emission operation. As part of this programme, LCRCA has approximately £50 million of TCR1 funding available for investment in fleet decarbonisation.
LCRCA is proposing to commission an evidence-based strategy for how this funding could best be deployed across zero-emission vehicles, vehicle repowering, and associated depot and charging infrastructure, while considering both the immediate benefits achievable through TCR1 and the longer-term pathway towards a fully zero-emission bus fleet.
The work is expected to consider the bus fleet and associated infrastructure at Birkenhead, Bootle, Green Lane, St Helens, and Speke depots and the services operating from these locations.
CPV: Energy-efficiency consultancy services · Environmental engineering consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Liverpool City Region Combined Authority buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
How the contest usually goes
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 44 days of the bid deadline.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid21% / 24%
2–343% / 11%
4–621% / 20%
7+14% / 44%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate47% / 38%
Within ±2%16% / 38%
Above estimate37% / 24%
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Lot #1CPV 7131Published estimate£50k
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1 bid24%
2–311%
4–620%
7+44%
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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.
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 6 Nov 2026, 16:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 16:54 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105932- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6fbFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published7 days ago6 Nov 2026, 16:54 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 14 days27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Opportunity can be found at: procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗
- Contract startsin 79 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Nov 2026, 16:54 GMTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender