Official UK procurement notice
SC2223-0184 DPS for School and Other Transport (New or Re-Apply)
Authority: Stirling Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionStirling Council is purchasing service contracts for transport to meet the education and social care needs of children and vulnerable adults as well as other passenger or goods transport requirements. Most of the transport will be within Stirling Council area, but there will also be cross-boundary requirements ranging beyond the Council area.
CPV: Buses and coaches · Public-service buses · Special-purpose road passenger-transport services · Taxi services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- Suitability
election criteria as stated in the procurement documents
- Technical & professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
- “SC2223-0184 DPS for School and Other Transport (New or Re-Apply)” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Competition for Special-purpose road passenger-transport services (CPV 6013), and who usually turns up
Stirling Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Special-purpose road passenger-transport services (CPV 6013) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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.
1 bid3% / 0%
2–340% / 13%
4–67% / 25%
7+50% / 63%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
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
Our matching links this notice to “SC2223-0184 DPS for School and Other Transport (2023)” of this authority, but none of the 9 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 6013Estimate not published
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–39%
4–614%
7+76%
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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.
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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| First Midland BluebirdWorked for this buyer | Replacement Bus Servicesnotice published Sept 2022 | X10 Route - Balfron – Stirling | — | Similar wording and category |
| Kingshouse Travel LtdWorked for this buyer | Replacement Bus Servicesnotice published Sept 2022 | C60 Bus Service - Killin – Callander | — | Similar wording and category |
| Hunters Executive Coaches ltdWorked for this buyer | Stirling City Park and Rid Services (P1 & P2)notice published Mar 2022 | Lot 3 - Euro 5 | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £896k1 awards in 36m · last 15 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £186k153 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 11 live · £633k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 34% below n=15 | |
| £3.7m1 awards in 36m · last 30 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| 28 awards in 36m · last 24 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
73% title match.
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.
73% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (73% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
SC2223-0184 DPS for School and Other Transport (2023), winner not published; no contract end date published.
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
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 27 Jul 2023, 10:35 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Jul 2023, 10:35 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 12 Aug 2027 – …
- Authority reference
SC2223-0184- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-021764- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03eabbFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
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=740007. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 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 requirements are stated in the Procurement Documents (SC Ref:740007)
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via portalTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗
- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Admission period ends
- 11 Aug 2027, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 12 Aug 2027, 12:00 BST
Stirling Council, Stirling, United Kingdom. NUTS code: UKM77. [email protected], www.stirling.gov.uk ↗
Timeline
27 Jul 2023 → 12 Aug 2027 · 3 dates- Notice published27 Jul 2023, 10:35 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 293 days · period end, not a bid countdown11 Aug 2027, 12:00 BST
- Bids openedin 294 days12 Aug 2027, 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
- Stirling Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria