Official UK procurement notice
Short and Long-Term Lease and Fleet Management
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEssex County Council is seeking a provider to deliver Vehicle Leasing and Fleet Management Services.
The contract will include the provision and management of long-term leased vehicles, short-term hire vehicles and specialist vehicles to support operational service delivery across the Council.
Vehicle requirements are expected to include, but are not limited to:
Cars, vans and light commercial vehicles;
4x4 vehicles and pick-up trucks;
People carriers and minibuses;
Specialist and adapted vehicles, including wheelchair-accessible vehicles and other bespoke vehicle requirements;
Vehicle conversions and modification services, where required.
Associated services are expected to include fleet management, maintenance management, compliance support, roadside assistance, vehicle delivery and collection, reporting, account management and related support services.
The contractor will be required to provide a flexible and scalable solution capable of accommodating changes in fleet size, operational requirements and organisational structures throughout the contract term.
CPV: Financial leasing services · Fleet management, repair and maintenance services · Motor vehicle conversion services · Motor vehicles
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Essex County Council buys Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011), and who usually turns up
Essex County 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: Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) →
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.
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.
Here, local means registered in East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.
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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 46 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid10% / 31%
2–333% / 56%
4–630% / 13%
7+28% / 0%
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.
Below estimate38% / 17%
Within ±2%55% / 50%
Above estimate7% / 33%
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
Lot #1CPV 5011Published estimate£15m
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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 16 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid31%
2–356%
4–613%
7+0%
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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.
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.
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 8 Jul 2026, 13:32 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Jul 2026, 09:34 BST
- Authority reference
E024PA- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064478- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c65dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jul 2026 → 30 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published106 days ago8 Jul 2026, 13:32 BST
- Market engagement84 days ago29 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Essex County Council (ECC) is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to inform a future procurement for Vehicle Leasing and Fleet Management Services.
The scope of this engagement includes:
Long-term vehicle leasing
Short-term vehicle hire
Specialist and modified vehicles
Vehicle availability and lead times
Commercial and pricing models
Fleet growth and demand management
Delivery and collection services
Whole life costing
Future market developments
The PME is being conducted through a Request for Information (RFI), available via the Open e-tendering portal at www.open-uk.org ↗ under reference OPEN20261523.
Suppliers wishing to participate should register their interest and submit their completed RFI response through Open by the stated deadline. Any clarification questions should be submitted using the messaging facility within the Open portal.
For guidance on using the Open system, please visit:
www.open-hub.org/how-to-guides ↗
For routine queries (passwords, account queries, locating information, etc.) email: [email protected]
Please note: The Open system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Technical support is available:
Monday to Thursday: 08:30 - 17:00
Friday: 08:30 - 16:30
- Tender notice expected16 days ago5 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 39 days30 Nov 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Jul 2026- Pipeline notice published8 Jul 2026, 13:32 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Jul 2026, 09:34 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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender