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Published 15 Oct 2026, 16:40 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Vehicle Telematics, CCTV and Tachograph Solutions 2026 (Re Tender) Aberdeenshire Council

Authority: Aberdeenshire Council (Local council)

2 lotsGoodsOpen procedure
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submission deadline 16 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 31d 11h left
Lots 2see the lot list below

What is being bought2 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Aberdeenshire Council require a vehicle management and tracking system, including CCTV and Tachograph services to cover vehicles within their fleet to be installed by Aberdeenshire Council staff

  • Recurrence: 2032

CPV: Hardware · Software package and information systems · Telematics services · Telematics system

Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure

2 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lot
Lot #1Telematics & TachographsRenewal
Lot #2Telematics, CCTV & TachographsRenewal

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored · same split on all 2 lots
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • quality: 60
  • Price: 40
Conditions of participation3
  • Suitability

    Tenderers must be able to provide both Telematics systems & tachograph systems including Tachograph download and Analysis

  • Economic & financial standing

    Tenderers must hold a minimum:

    5,000,000 GBP Employers Liability Insurance (where applicable),

    5,000,000 GBP Public/Product Liability Insurance.

    Where a Group is providing the equipment, please provide a copy of both the Group’s Annual Accounts and the Annual Accounts for the particular subsidiary company that will be providing the equipment

    The Council will use an independent credit scoring organisation, namely Equifax, to conduct appropriate financial probity checks.

    Minimum: Tenderers must hold a minimum: 5,000,000 GBP Employers Liability Insurance (where applicable), 5,000,000 GBP Public/Product Liability Insurance. Submission of 3 most recent set of Audited Annual Accounts for review by the Council (audited where applicable, or equivalent financial…
  • Technical & professional ability

    You must submit two examples of providing equivalent or similar services within the last 3 years. This includes both tachograph data downloads and data analysis.

    Minimum: Two examples of providing equivalent or similar services within the last 3 years.
Staff
Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Aberdeenshire Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

Aberdeenshire Council’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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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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 buyerAberdeenshire Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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: 30 of 37 known-size awards · market: division 48 · Scotland, n=72
81%40%

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 registered in Scotland.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 29 of 35 known-location awards · market: division 48 · Scotland, n=43
83%14%

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: division 48 · UK-wide, n=240
—62 days

Half of these awards were announced within 62 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 8 of 28 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · Scotland, n=100
29%56%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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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 buyer58 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market22 lots with bid counts · division 48 · Scotland
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 58 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
2–328% / 32%
Buyer: 16 of 58 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
4–671% / 27%
Buyer: 41 of 58 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
7+2% / 41%
Buyer: 1 of 58 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 22 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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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 buyer6 lots with estimate and award · all categories
67% below estimate
The market10 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · Scotland
80% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate67% / 80%
Buyer: 4 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%17% / 10%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17% / 10%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 10 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 #1Telematics & Tachographs59 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
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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 22 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 22 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 22 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–332%
7 of 22 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–627%
6 of 22 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+41%
9 of 22 similar past lots received 7+ (41%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

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

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

No supplier with a record in this category fits this lot yet.

Lot #2Telematics, CCTV & Tachographs59 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
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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 22 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 22 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 22 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–332%
7 of 22 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–627%
6 of 22 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+41%
9 of 22 similar past lots received 7+ (41%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

No supplier with a record in this category fits this lot yet.

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 match score 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
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Open for tender
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
Yes · 2032
First published
15 Oct 2026, 16:40 BST
Last source update
15 Oct 2026, 16:40 BST
Award evaluation window
16 Nov 2026 – …
Authority reference
CRN00038840
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097651
Classification (CPV)
HardwareSoftware package and information systemsTelematics servicesTelematics system
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM50)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0788e8 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment

Publisher note: Whilst CCTV is requested, the Council do not have an intention to purchase this at this time but are keen to understand pricing should this requirement arise. If you cannot provide CCTV, there is an option to provide Telematics and Tachograph services only. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 32893. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Fair Works Practices (Including Living Wage) Environmental Measures Prompt Payment in the Supply Chain Work Placements/Experience School Engagement Activities Communities, Community Groups, and Community Projects Support Stem technology (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) - Vacancy sharing Armed Forces Covenant (Bronze, silver and Gold) Contractor's own suggested Benefit (SC Ref:845818)

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via Public Contracts Scotland
Submission portal named on this notice: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Participation fee
document
Bid validity
120 days from the deadline
Bids opened
16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

15 Oct 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Notice publishedearlier today
    15 Oct 2026, 16:40 BST
  2. Today
    16 Oct 2026
  3. Submission deadlinein 31 days
    16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Bids openedin 31 days
    16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Aberdeenshire Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityVehicle Telematics, CCTV & Tachographs Woodhill House, Westburn Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB16 5GBContact email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Aberdeenshire Sheriff CourtReview body Aberdeen

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.