Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 9 Jul 2025, 16:12 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Taxi & Small Bus Service - Open Framework Agreement 2026 Market Engagement Sessions

Official notice

Authority: Kingston Upon Hull City Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£35,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Apr 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 8 yrsends 3 Nov 2034 · starts 4 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Hull City Council are carrying out a procurement exercise to secure an open framework agreement for Home to School Transport Services. The events will provide information on the anticipated procurement exercise and commissioning plans for the Service as well as collecting views from the market to aid specification drafting. The event is being held on: Wednesday 6th August 2025 between 10:00am - 12:00pm at The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA and Thursday 7th August 2025 between 15:00pm - 17:00pm via MS Teams. To book your place utilise the messaging section on YORtender yortender.eu-supply.com ↗

CPV: Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver · Taxi services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
8 yrs from 4 Nov 2026

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 8 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 4 Nov 2026 – 3 Nov 2034 (8 yrs)
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “Taxi & Small Bus Service - Open Framework Agreement 2026 Market…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
9 Jul 2025, 16:12 BST
Last source update
9 Jul 2025, 16:12 BST
Authority reference
101215
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-038714
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driverTaxi services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055c50 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

9 Jul 2025 → 4 Nov 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    9 Jul 2025, 16:12 BST
  2. Market engagement
    5 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST

    Hull City Council are carrying out a procurement exercise to secure an open framework agreement for Home to School Transport Services. The events will provide information on the anticipated procurement exercise and commissioning plans for the Service as well as collecting views from the market to aid specification drafting. The event is being held on: Wednesday 6th August 2025 between 10:00am - 12:00pm at The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA and Thursday 7th August 2025 between 15:00pm - 17:00pm via MS Teams. To book your place utilise the messaging section on YORtender yortender.eu-supply.com ↗

  3. Tender notice expected205 days ago
    2 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 10 days
    4 Nov 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Jul 2025, 16:12 BST
    UK2

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

Kingston Upon Hull City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRNP-1874-YZZR The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street,, Hull, Yorkshire & Humber, HU1 1AAContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure