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Published 22 May 2026, 13:37 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Vehicle Leasing Services · UK public procurement notice

Authority: North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Central government)

Framework agreementServicesSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£3,333,333pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 29 Jun 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 5 yrsends 6 Feb 2032 · starts 7 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

North West Ambulance Service is seeking suppliers to provide the lease of standard build and possible converted passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.

CPV: Vehicle-fleet management services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
5 yrs from 7 Feb 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 7 Feb 2027 – 6 Feb 2032 (5 yrs)
Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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
  • “Vehicle Leasing Services” 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 West Ambulance Service NHS Trust buys Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011), and who usually turns up

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has little published record in this market. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-size awards · market: CPV 5011 · North West England, n=33
0 of 145%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 5011 · North West England, n=22
0 of 145%

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

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 5011 · UK-wide, n=18
—54 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 54 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 1 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5011 · North West England, n=5
0 of 140%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo bid counts published
The market72 lots with bid counts · CPV 5011 · UK-wide
18% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18%
Market: 13 of 72 lots with published bid counts.
2–332%
Market: 23 of 72 lots with published bid counts.
4–626%
Market: 19 of 72 lots with published bid counts.
7+24%
Market: 17 of 72 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

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

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

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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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 501160 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£3.3m
Expected competition
i

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 58 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet2% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 58 similar lots
1 bid2%
1 of 58 similar past lots received 1 bid (2%).
2–39%
5 of 58 similar past lots received 2–3 (9%).
4–624%
14 of 58 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+66%
38 of 58 similar past lots received 7+ (66%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 9.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—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?
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.

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.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
22 May 2026, 13:37 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 13:37 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047891
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Vehicle-fleet management services
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a13d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

22 May 2026 → 7 Feb 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published155 days ago
    22 May 2026, 13:37 BST
  2. Tender notice expected116 days ago
    29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 106 days
    7 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 13:37 BST
    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 WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: RX7 · GB-PPON: PGTN-2617-YXZW Chorley New Road, Bolton, North West, BL1 5DDContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender