Official UK procurement notice
Vehicle Repairs Service · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire (Police & fire)
Lancashire Constabulary’s Fleet Department require Accident/Collision and Vehicle Mechanical Repair Service to repair and maintain vehicles. The Authority is seeking to procure the services of between 5 and 8 suppliers to provide a broad range of repairs to Police Vehicles, to support our Vehicle Maintenance Strategies over a 2 year period, with the option to extend for a further 2 years. Suppliers will need to be located within a 60-mile radius (via Google Maps) to our Headquarters site (PR4 5SB). All vehicle repairs shall be completed strictly in accordance with the vehicle manufacturer's latest repair methods, technical bulletins, approved repair procedures and specifications current at the time of repair.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLancashire Constabulary’s Fleet Department require Accident/Collision and Vehicle Mechanical Repair Service to repair and maintain vehicles. The Authority is seeking to procure the services of between 5 and 8 suppliers to provide a broad range of repairs to Police Vehicles, to support our Vehicle Maintenance Strategies over a 2 year period, with the option to extend for a further 2 years.
The existing Lancashire Constabulary Vehicle Repairs Service Framework Agreement is due to expire 30th September 2027. The Constabulary will be replacing this with a new framework, estimated to start on 1st October 2027.
The estimated spend for the replacement framework will be in the region of £4 million.
Suppliers will need to be located within a 60-mile radius (via Google Maps) to our Headquarters site (PR4 5SB). This will enable site visits for vehicle inspections and face to face contract management to take place at a location based within a distance that would not add unnecessary costs or delay to the service.
This criterion is also essential to meet carbon reduction and net zero targets, in addition to our obligation to reduce contract costs.
Suppliers outside of the specified radius are permitted to set up/utilise appropriate subcontracting arrangements within the radius. This can include the location and use of suitable sub-contractors who may be able to carry out this service on behalf of the supplier.
All vehicle repairs shall be completed strictly in accordance with the vehicle manufacturer's latest repair methods, technical bulletins, approved repair procedures and specifications current at the time of repair.
Under no circumstances shall repair methods be used that deviate from manufacturer-approved processes unless written approval is obtained from the Lancashire Constabulary.
Qualifications that technicians undertaking repairs must possess include:
- ATA Accreditation (or equivalent).
- Manufacturer-specific training where available.
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and technical updates.
Lancashire Constabulary will be conducting Pre-Market Engagement. Please keep an eye out for the UK2 Notice, and information included on our external websites.
CPV: Fleet management, repair and maintenance services · Police cars
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Framework period
- 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Oct 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£4,000,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
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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).
- “Vehicle Repairs Service” 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 Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire buys Passenger cars (CPV 3411), and who usually turns up
Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire has little published record in this market. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Passenger cars (CPV 3411) →
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Across this market, small firms won 44% of awards with a known supplier size.
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Across this market, 14% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 44 days of the bid deadline.
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Across this market, at least 50% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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1 bid0%
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4–645%
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Lot #1CPV 3411Published estimate£4.0m
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1 bid13%
2–338%
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 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
- 3 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Jun 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104423- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079710Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 25 Mar 2027
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
3 Nov 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published21h ago3 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 99 days11 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 140 days · period end, not a bid countdown25 Mar 2027
- Award decision expected byin 226 days19 Jun 2027, 00:59 BST
- Contract startsin 330 days1 Oct 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published3 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- No contract published
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- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender