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Published 6 Nov 2026, 16:05 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Sustainable Fleet Solutions · UK public procurement notice

Authority: North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (Public body)

Framework agreementServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 2 yrsends 28 Feb 2029 · up to 28 Feb 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Mar 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

NWUPC on behalf of members of UKUPC is seeking for establishing a new comprehensive Sustainable Fleet Solutions Frameworks that will reflect to needs of the HE sector and other UK Public Bodies. The Framework will have a national coverage and will split into four lots as follows: Lot 1: Vehicle Hire Lot 2: Vehicle Leasing Lot 3: Car Club Lot 4: Salary Sacrifice The services include but not not limited: Hire and leasing automatic and manual vehicles, including both petrol and diesel vehicles, ultra-low emission and low emission options.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

NWUPC on behalf of members of UKUPC is seeking for establishing a new comprehensive Sustainable Fleet Solutions Frameworks that will reflect to needs of the HE sector and other UK Public Bodies. The Framework will have a national coverage and will split into four lots as follows: Lot 1: Vehicle Hire Lot 2: Vehicle Leasing Lot 3: Car Club Lot 4: Salary Sacrifice The services include but not not limited: Hire and leasing automatic and manual vehicles, including both petrol and diesel vehicles, ultra-low emission and low emission options. Vehicles will consist primarily of cars, including 4x4s off road vehicles, light commercial vehicles of varying size and self-drive minibuses; Use of the Supplier’s established virtual fleet to allow both pre-booking and ad-hoc short-term rental of vehicles; the provision of onboard car club technology in Member owned fleet vehicles; and the provision of dedicated Car Club pool vehicles for Member use; Provision of an Ultra-Low Emission Vehicle Salary sacrifice Scheme enabling the employees of participating organisations to obtain a new fully maintained and insured ultra-low emission vehicle in exchange for a monthly deduction from their gross salary.

CPV: Electric vehicles · Financial leasing services · Motor vehicles for the transport of 10 or more persons · Passenger cars · Support services for road transport · Vans · Vehicle-fleet-support services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Mar 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 – 28 Feb 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 28 Feb 2031 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Sustainable Fleet Solutions” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium buys Passenger cars (CPV 3411), and who usually turns up

North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Passenger cars (CPV 3411) →

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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
The marketPassenger cars (CPV 3411) · UK-wide
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 13 of 27 known-size awards · market: CPV 3411 · UK-wide, n=10
48%50%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 3411 · UK-wide, n=7
0 of 114%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 34 · UK-wide, n=56
—52 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 52 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 0 of 5 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3411 · UK-wide, n=8
0%50%

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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This buyer11 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · CPV 3411 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (11) / the market (33) · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–336% / 12%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–645% / 45%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+18% / 42%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 33 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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Assess each lot
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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 “Sustainable Fleet Solutions” of this authority, but none of the 4 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.

Lot #1CPV 501124 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published

This lot is listed as CPV 5011. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition
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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 71 past lots.

—No model forecast yet18% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 71 similar lots
1 bid18%
13 of 71 similar past lots received 1 bid (18%).
2–332%
23 of 71 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–627%
19 of 71 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+23%
16 of 71 similar past lots received 7+ (23%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

What this replaces
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100% title match.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Sustainable Fleet Solutions — held by Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental and Car Hire (Day of Swansea) Ltd t/a Days Rental (+1 more); the published contract ends 30 Sept 2026.

Coming up in this sector

Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set

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
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
6 Nov 2026, 16:05 GMT
Last source update
6 Nov 2026, 16:05 GMT
Authority reference
VEH3192NW
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105890
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Electric vehiclesFinancial leasing servicesMotor vehicles for the transport of 10 or more personsPassenger carsSupport services for road transportVansVehicle-fleet-support services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6e6 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

6 Nov 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published7 days ago
    6 Nov 2026, 16:05 GMT
  2. Today
    14 Nov 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 19 days
    3 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 106 days
    1 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    6 Nov 2026, 16:05 GMT
    UK1

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

North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PLZJ-2257-TGCV Salford Innovation Forum- Room 210, Salford, North West, M6 6FPContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender