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Vehicle Hire Framework - Pre-Market Engagement

Buyer: Rotherham Borough Council →

BuyerRotherham Borough Council
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published22 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) are keen to understand the market options and potential market changes in order to support the council in building a multi-lot, diverse vehicle hire framework. This market engagement therefore seeks to gather any knowledge and data that potential suppliers can provide to RMBC to improve the procurement and industry updates. The Council has a requirement for the usage of hire vehicles that are diverse and are required to be readily available for the council to utilise, the framework is required to be reactive to support the Councils requirements and reduce any down time. The vehicles required could range from standard passenger vehicles to specialist vehicles such as grounds maintenance, tractors, mowers, sweepers, gritters any many more.

Delivery location

UKE31, GB

Categories

Transport services (excl. Waste transport) 60000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 1 Feb 2026 to 31 Jan 2030

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Transport services (excl. Waste transport)Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 60. The category anchor is Transport services (excl. Waste transport) (60000000); 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 602,47614 median · 29.9 average (1,943 of 2,476 with a bid count)1.4 average (1,959 of 2,476 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKE315422 median · 422 average (2 of 5 with a bid count)10 average (2 of 5 with named award suppliers)Not 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 agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) are keen to understand the market options and availability for an upcoming vehicle hire procurement and will do this via the Mercell tendering portal: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER Mercell project reference 101469 The market engagement has been designed as a turnaround document available on Mercell at the address specified above. Please feel free to include any information you feel relevant to the questions asked. Please note that this is not a competitive exercise and is to inform the Council's approach as well as gauge the interest and capacity of the market.engagement1 Aug 2025scheduled

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-0522bf
Latest release ID042180-2025
Latest release timestampTue Jul 22 2025 16:09:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
22 Jul 2025planning042180-2025
23 May 2025planning026396-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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