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Taxi Driver Knowledge Tests

Buyer: Sheffield City Council →

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BuyerSheffield City Council
StatusClosed
Deadline24 Jun 2026
Value£20,000
Published22 May 2026

What is being bought

The provision of a secure, web-based test delivery service to support the Council’s Hackney Carriage / Private Hire Vehicle Drivers Licence process. The service will be used to administer an online knowledge test to applicants in a controlled and auditable way, producing consistent results and supporting fair assessment.

Delivery location

UKE32, GB

Categories

Training services 80500000

Lot details

Lot LOT-0000

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£20,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price (50%)
Quality (50%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
LOT-0000Training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Training services (80500000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 806,6562 median · 47.9 average (3,113 of 6,656 with a bid count)3.2 average (3,415 of 6,656 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer7Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKE32325 median · 50.7 average (17 of 32 with a bid count)4.6 average (19 of 32 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)128Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0658ed
Latest release ID047499-2026
Latest release timestampFri May 22 2026 08:01:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/047499-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-06-24T15:00:00+00:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-10T11:00:00+00:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=105699&TID100110823&B=
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£20,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
22 May 2026tender047499-2026
20 Feb 2026planning015566-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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