Official UK procurement notice
UK02 - Preliminary market engagement notice - Community Services Transport for Older People
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWestminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington &
Chelsea are seeking to engage with the market ahead of a competitive procurement for community transport services supporting older people who experience mobility, health or other barriers to using public transport.
The service aims to promote independence, reduce loneliness and isolation, improve wellbeing, and enable older people to access shopping, social, leisure and community opportunities.
The proposed services across Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea include:
- shopper services;
- transport to Age Well Centres;
- flexible transport for trips, outings and community activities;
- volunteer-led and paid driver car schemes; and
- transport supporting wider Older People’s Day Opportunity Services.
The anticipated contract term is five years, with an option to extend for up to a further three years and six months.
This event follows preliminary market engagement undertaken in 2025 and is intended to update the market ahead of the forthcoming procurement. The previous preliminary market engagement notice was published on 7 August 2025 under notice reference 2025/S 000-047034. The previous notice can be viewed on Find a Tender. [047034-2025
An online market engagement event will be held on Wednesday 21 October 2026, from 10:30am to 11:45am.
The event will include an overview of:
- the proposed services and delivery model;
- the anticipated procurement timetable;
- the proposed contract arrangements; and
- the intended procurement approach.
Suppliers wishing to attend should register their interest through the Westminster City Council Jaggaer procurement portal and search for:
SQ_30226 - Community Services Transport for Older People - Market engagement event EOI
Joining instructions for the online event will be issued to registered suppliers through Jaggaer.
This engagement exercise does not constitute a call for competition, a commitment to undertake the procurement or a pre-qualification process. Participation is voluntary and will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent procurement.
CPV: Non-scheduled passenger transport
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Westminster City Council buys Non-scheduled passenger transport (CPV 6014), and who usually turns up
Westminster City 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: Non-scheduled passenger transport (CPV 6014) →
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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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 96 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 bid26% / 53%
2–334% / 43%
4–633% / 2%
7+8% / 1%
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 estimate41% / 11%
Within ±2%47% / 67%
Above estimate11% / 22%
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 6014Published estimate£2.9m
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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 246 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid53%
2–343%
4–62%
7+1%
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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
- 7 Aug 2025, 16:21 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Oct 2026, 12:37 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095168- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0583a7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Aug 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published7 Aug 2025, 16:21 BST
- Latest notice published12 days ago8 Oct 2026, 12:37 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 2 days21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
An online market engagement event will be held on Wednesday 21 October 2026, from 10:30am to 11:45am.
The event will include an overview of:
the proposed services and delivery model;
the anticipated procurement timetable;
the proposed contract arrangements; and
the intended procurement approach.
Suppliers wishing to attend should submit an expression of interest through the Westminster City Council Jaggaer procurement portal and search for:
SQ_30226 - Community Services Transport for Older People - Market engagement event EOI
Joining instructions for the online event will be issued through Jaggaer to suppliers that have registered their interest.
No clarification questions are required as part of the expression of interest. The expression of interest is solely to register attendance at the market engagement event.
Participation is voluntary and does not constitute a call for competition or pre-qualification process. Participation will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in the subsequent procurement.
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- Tender notice expectedin 7 days26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 163 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 Aug 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Aug 2025, 16:21 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Oct 2026, 12:37 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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender