Official UK procurement notice
Specialist Police Vehicle Conversions
Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon & Somerset (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe South-West Police Procurement Service ("SWPPS") is currently undertaking preliminary market engagement and considering route to market options for a future procurement process for the conversion of police vehicles for Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
The procurement will consist of the conversion of up to 40 police vehicles (although no commitment is made at this stage), including:
- Roads policing vehicles
- Surveillance vehicles
- Armed response vehicles
- Protected personnel carriers
- Dog vehicles
- Cell vans
We are seeking engagement from suppliers with experience in the conversion of specialist emergency service vehicles, particularly police vehicles, and who can demonstrate the technical capability, capacity and expertise necessary to support this requirement. Responses from all interested suppliers are welcomed. The purpose of the preliminary market engagement, prior to undertaking any future procurement process, is to seek input from the market to inform our requirements, help develop our specification for the services, and identify the most appropriate route to market.
CPV: Motor vehicles · Vehicle conversion and reconditioning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon & Somerset buys Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011), and who usually turns up
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon & Somerset’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 South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South West 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 70 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.
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 bid0% / 38%
2–39% / 25%
4–627% / 38%
7+64% / 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 estimate23%
Within ±2%60%
Above estimate17%
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 5011Estimate 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. The bar shows 115 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–332%
4–632%
7+18%
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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- 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, 10:25 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Jul 2026, 10:25 BST
- Authority reference
1430- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064007- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c5f5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jul 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published105 days ago8 Jul 2026, 10:25 BST
- Market engagement95 days ago17 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
SWPPS invites interested suppliers to complete a short questionnaire and, where appropriate, participate in a Microsoft Teams meeting with the SWPPS Category Manager for Fleet and Operations and Avon and Somerset Constabulary's Head of Fleet to discuss their responses in more detail.
If you are interested in supporting SWPPS with this engagement, please respond to this notice by emailing the SWPPS Category Manager at [email protected] and we will be in touch with a questionnaire for completion. The closing date for pre-market engagement questionnaire returns and subsequent arrangement of Teams meetings will be 15:00 on Friday, 17 July 2026.
SWPPS is committed to ensuring fairness, openness and transparency, and to complying with the Procurement Act 2023. This preliminary market engagement notice is issued solely for the purpose of pre-procurement market testing and engagement.
Participation in this preliminary market engagement exercise is entirely voluntary. Suppliers who choose not to participate will not be excluded from, disadvantaged in, or otherwise affected in any subsequent procurement process. Equally, participation in this engagement exercise will not provide any advantage in any future procurement.
This notice does not constitute a call for competition, a commitment to commence a procurement process, or an offer to procure any services, supplies or works. SWPPS shall not be liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party participating in this preliminary market engagement exercise.
- Contract starts50 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jul 2026, 10:25 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender