Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for a Coach Service for 2027/28 academic year onwards
Authority: Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: Healthcare Partners Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPre-market engagement questionnaire for expressions of interest in being invited to tender for the supply of the Coach Service for Students for Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from the start of the academic year in 2027 for a period to be decided not exceeding four years.
The service will involve four weekday return journeys per week from W6 8RF to KT16 0PZ in the morning and the return trip in the afternoon.
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CPV: Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver (CPV 6017), and who usually turns up
Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver (CPV 6017) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
No decision dates published to compare.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6017No real estimate
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
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 121 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–317%
4–640%
7+30%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 16 Jun 2026, 12:07 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Jun 2026, 12:07 BST
- Authority reference
Prelim1_Jun26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-056591- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b5ceFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
16 Jun 2026 → 27 Sept 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published128 days ago16 Jun 2026, 12:07 BST
- Market engagement114 days ago30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Pre-market engagement questionnaire for expressions of interest in being invited to tender for the supply of the Coach Service for Students for Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from the start of the academic year in 2027 for a period to be decided not exceeding four years.
Pre-market engagement with the aims and objectives of:
(1) developing the Authority’s requirements and approach to the procurement;
(2) designing award criteria;
(3) identifying suppliers that may be able to supply the goods, services or works required;
(4) identifying likely contractual terms;
(5) preparing the tender documents;
this will help it then to decide the structure of its future requirements, the contract duration appropriate and the most suitable procurement route for its invitation to tender to fulfil its requirements.
The Pre-market engagement process:
The Authority is issuing an outline of its general requirements for the service alongside a pre-market engagement questionnaire for possible suppliers to express interest in being invited to tender to provide the requirement by answering the questions.
The list of suppliers to which the questionnaire is initially addressed includes:
•individual supplier companies which are either known to the Authority from previous business,
•or listed on one of the two frameworks and appropriate lots identified by the Authority as those under which services of this nature may be procured; and
•expressions of interest will be accepted if other suppliers wish to respond to the Pre-Market Engagement Notice.
For suppliers awarded to the framework called Passenger Transport Services Lot 5 the procurement body (The Procurement Partnership Limited (TPPL)) which established that framework has offered to conduct the preliminary engagement for the Authority as an RFI within this premarket engagement and accordingly the questionnaire will be issued to those suppliers by TPPL and answers from them will be collated for the Authority by TPPL.
For all other suppliers replies to the questionnaire must be submitted directly via Delta to the Authority.
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 339 days27 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Jun 2026, 12:07 BSTUK2
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Healthcare Partners LimitedProcuring entityContracts Officer generating this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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