Official UK procurement notice
Recovery & Relocation Services for Vehicle and Plant Equipment
Authority: Glasgow City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Provision of Recovery & Relocation Services for vehicle and plant equipment.
- Recurrence: October 2030
CPV: Breakdown and recovery services for buses · Breakdown and recovery services for cars · Breakdown and recovery services for commercial vehicles · Breakdown and recovery services for motor vehicles · Breakdown and recovery services for motorcycles · Breakdown vehicles
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 5 suppliers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Council requires recovery and relocation services for vehicles up to 44 tonnes for the provision of a 24 hours, 365 days per year recovery and relocation services as summarised...RenewalPublished value£3,666,000
- Extensions
- Subject to Council's future demands, 12 months prior to the expiry of this framework, the Council may consider commencing a new tender process
- Variant bids
- not allowed
- Electronic catalogue
- required
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morePublished sub-criteria (7)
- Fair Work First — 5%
- Service Delivery — 30%
- Fleet — 5%
- Electric Vehicles — 5%
- Training — 5%
- price — 45%
- Sustainability — 5%
Published award criteria (7)
- Fair Work First — 5
- Service Delivery — 30
- Fleet — 5
- Electric Vehicles — 5
- Training — 5
- Sustainability — 5
- price — 45
- Economic & financial standing
Insurance Glasgow City Council’s Insurance Requirements are: The Bidder shall take out and maintain, throughout the period of the Framework, Employer’s Liability insurance to the value of at least TEN MILLION POUNDS STERLING (10,000,000 GBP) in respect of any more…
one event and unlimited in the period. The Bidder shall take out and maintain, throughout the period of the contract, Public Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION POUNDS STERLING (5,000,000 GBP) in respect of any one event and unlimited in the period. The Bidder shall maintain motor insurance in accordance with the requirements of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and any other applicable legislation. Where required, the Bidder shall maintain Motor Trade Road Risks cover sufficient for the recovery, transportation and movement of vehicles and plant in connection with the delivery of the Framework. The Bidder shall maintain insurance covering loss of or damage to any vehicle, plant item or third-party asset while in the bidder’s possession, custody or control, including during recovery, transportation, relocation, loading, unloading and storage operations. The level of indemnity shall be sufficient to cover the maximum foreseeable value of vehicles and plant equipment handled under the contract. The policies may be stand-alone or a combined Motor Trade policy The above insurances shall be with an insurance company registered with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, or equivalent body for EU member sta…Minimum:Financial Check In order to pass the Financial Check section of the contract, it is mandatory for companies to attain the undernoted:- There is a minimum financial requirement that affects trading more…
performance and balance sheet strength. Financial requirements for trading performa…
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Glasgow City Council runs Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) tenders for its clients — and who usually turns up
Glasgow City Council procures on behalf of other bodies; its record below covers every client it has tendered for, next to the Scotland market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: the procurement agent running this notice. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Glasgow City Council
Runs tenders for other bodies; the client is named in the notice, not in this record. framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 6 in division 50 · 37 in all categories
Scotland · Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011)
framework/DPS notices delivered in Scotland in 36 months: 31 in CPV 5011 (28 contested) · 240 in division 50 (235 contested)
robust · n=9 Awards in Glasgow City Council (all categories, n=9 pairs) land a median 3% below: on this notice’s £3,666,000 that is about £3,563,352. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per lot, contested contract notices). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · October 2030
- First published
- 21 Sept 2026, 11:03 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 11:03 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 22 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST — …
- Authority reference
GCC006281CPU- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07762c
- Performance terms
- As referenced in Document One - Invitation to Tender and Document Two - Terms & Conditions
- Review procedure
Glasgow City Council must, by notice in writing as soon as possible after the decision has been made, inform all tenderers and candidates concerned of its decision to award the contract. The Council must allow a period of at least the relevant standstill period (where the notice is sent by facsimile or electronic more…
means the period is 10 days ending at midnight at the end of the 10th day after that on which the last notice is sent, when sent by other means the period is 15 days) to elapse between the date of despatch of the notice referred to in Regulation 86 of The Public Contract (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (“the Regulations”). The Council is obliged to comply with the Regulations and any eligible economic operator can bring an action in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session where as a consequence of a breach by the Council, suffers or risks suffering loss or damage. The bringing of court proceedings during the standstill period means that the Council must not enter into the contract unless the proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of; or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The bringing of court proceedings after the standstill period has elapsed and the remedies that are available to the courts are detailed in the Regulations. Economic Operators can write to the Council seeking further clarification on the notice, to which the Council must respond within 15 days. Economic Operators should be mindful to seek their own independent legal advice when they consider appropriate to do so.
Publisher note: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. For SPD Questions 4D.1, 4D1.1, 4D1.2, 4D2, 4D2.1 and 4D2.2; Bidders should hold the relevant certificates for Quality Assurance Schemes and Environmental Management Standards . If Bidders do not hold the relevant certificates, they will be required to respond to supporting questions. Bidders must complete Document Five – Health and Safety Questionnaire and submit it with the tender submission (Only questionnaires of the preferred bidders will have the health and safety aspect evaluated. Freedom of Information Act Information on the FOI Act is contained in Appendix A of the ITT. Bidders must note the implications of this legislation and ensure that any information they wish the council to consider withholding is specifically indicated on the FOI certificate (NB the council does not bind itself to withhold this information). Tenderers Amendments Bidders must enter any clause, condition, amendment to specification or any other qualification they may wish to make conditional to this offer. Prompt Payment The successful Service Providers shall, as a condition of being awarded the tender, be required to demonstrate to the council's satisfaction that all funds due to the tenderer's permitted sub-contractors in respect of these works are paid timeously and that as a minimum invoices rendered by subcontractors shall (unless formally disputed by the tenderer) be paid within 30 days of receipt. The successful Service Provider shall also impose this condition on its sub-contractors in respect of payments due to any sub-sub-contractors, if any. Non Collusion Bidders will be required to complete the Non Collusion certificate. Insurance Mandate All successful Service Providers will be required to sign an Insurance Mandate, contained in the buyers attachments area within the PCS Tender portal authorising the Council to request copies of insurance documents from the supplier’s insurance provider. If the mandate is not signed and returned the Council reserves the right to request copies of insurance certificates from bidders at any point during the contract period. Terms and Conditions are located within the attachments area within the PCS Tender portal and are reference Document Two Additional information pertaining to this contract notice is contained in the Invitation to Tender Document One. Bidders must ensure they read all the attachments available in the attachment area in line with this contract notice. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 65491. 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: COMMUNITY BENEFITS POINTS AND THRESHOLDS: 420 points, community benefits points will be triggered once the spend reaches the undernoted threshold: - Community Benefit Points Offered - Reaching spend threshold of 500k GBP - 120 points Community Benefit Points Offered - Reaching spend threshold between 501k GBP to up to 1M GBP– Additional 180 points Community Benefit Points Offered - Reaching spend threshold 3 - over 1M GBP – Additional 120 points. Bidders are required to offer the minimum CB points as detailed above for each lot they are bidding for within this framework agreement as a mandatory requirement. Bidders must confirm that they will meet these obligations in full by completing the relevant areas within the Community Benefits Menu and Methodlogy. Only Bidders who provide the desired points and provide completed menu and methodlogy will progress. (SC Ref:841705)
How to participate & submission route
Apply via Public Contracts Scotland- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 22 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 22 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Notice publishedearlier today21 Sept 2026, 11:03 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsin 31 days · period end, not a bid countdown22 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Bids openedin 31 days22 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Glasgow Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria