Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 8 Jul 2026, 14:35 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for use across its services.

Authority: Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Goods
Planned pipeline value£250,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 23 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Supply and delivery off personal protection equipment, clothing and footwear

CPV: Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories · Protective and safety clothing · Protective footwear · Protective gear · Protective goggles

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Strathclyde Partnership for Transport buys Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment (CPV 3511), and who usually turns up

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment (CPV 3511) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerStrathclyde Partnership for Transport · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=130
2 of 368%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 2 known-location awards · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=101
2 of 230%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=17
—73 days

Half of these awards were announced within 73 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 1 of 5 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3511 · UK-wide, n=158
20%51%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · all categories
20% had one bid
The market65 lots with bid counts · CPV 3511 · UK-wide
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid20% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 37%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 24 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 26%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 20%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 65 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer3 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market24 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3511 · UK-wide
46% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46%
Market: 11 of 24 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%42%
Market: 10 of 24 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate13%
Market: 3 of 24 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1Supply and delivery of personal protective clothing and footwearCPV 3511Published estimate£250k
Expected competition
i

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 65 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 65 similar lots
1 bid17%
11 of 65 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–337%
24 of 65 similar past lots received 2–3 (37%).
4–626%
17 of 65 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+20%
13 of 65 similar past lots received 7+ (20%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £250k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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 · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 Jul 2026, 14:35 BST
Last source update
8 Jul 2026, 14:35 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064277
Classification (CPV)
Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessoriesProtective and safety clothingProtective footwearProtective gearProtective goggles
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM82)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c68c Find a Tender

Publisher note: NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=836916. (SC Ref:836916)

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Jul 2026 → 23 Nov 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published106 days ago
    8 Jul 2026, 14:35 BST
  2. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 32 days
    23 Nov 2026

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

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawTransport 131 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 5JFContact email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.