Official UK procurement notice
WSCC - JS - Passenger Transport DPS
Authority: West Sussex County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council intends to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of passenger transport services. The procurement procedure is in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (SI2015/103) (PCR 2015)A Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is a completely electronic system used to purchase commonly used goods, works or services. The DPS may be divided into categories of products, works or services commonly sometimes referred to as lots.The DPS will be open for submissions from 03 May 2022 with further competitions to be issued via the DPS from 24 June 2022
CPV: Road transport services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Places
- up to 100 suppliers
- Market period
- 5 yrs from 3 May 2022, The DPS initial term is 5 years
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£175,000,000
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- Economic & financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
- Technical & professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
- “WSCC - JS - Passenger Transport DPS” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 100 suppliers, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Sussex County Council buys Road transport services (CPV 6010), and who usually turns up
West Sussex County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Road transport services (CPV 6010) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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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 70 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.
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.
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 bid14% / 0%
2–30% / 27%
4–60% / 8%
7+86% / 65%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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 6010Published estimate£175m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–39%
4–633%
7+58%
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
CM DaviesSME | — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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 · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 20 Apr 2022, 16:04 BST
- Last source update
- 17 May 2024, 12:15 BST
- Authority reference
2022/S 000-010315- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-015694- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032ee8Find a Tender
Publisher note: Requests to participate are required to be submitted via the Authority's tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/HomeThis system will also be used to publish mini-competitions for contracts let from the DPS.Access to the system/software and advice is free of charge.Registration is necessary in order to submit requests to participate in the DPS, and if successfully appointed to the DPS, submit tenders for contracts let from the DPS.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 2 May 2027, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
3 May 2022 → 2 May 2027 · 3 dates- Contract starts3 May 2022, 00:00 BST
- Notice published17 May 2024, 12:15 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 192 days · period end, not a bid countdown2 May 2027, 12:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated17 May 2024, 12:15 BST
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
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| — | TextBuyer's address · I | https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/Current | https://atamis-7669.my.site.com/ | |
| — | TextCommunication · I.3 | https://www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing | https://atamis-7669.my.site.com/ | |
| — | TextAdditional information · VI | Requests to participate are required to be submitted via the Authority's tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/HomeThis system will also be used to publish mini-competitions for contracts let from the DPS.Access to the system/software and advice is free of charge.Registration is necessary in order to submit requests to participate in the DPS, and if successfully appointe… | Requests to participate are required to be submitted via the Authority's tendering systemhttps://atamis-7669.my.site.com/. This system will also be used to publish mini-competitions for contracts let from the DPS.Access to the system/software and advice is free of charge.Registration is necessary in order to submit requests to participate in the DPS, and if successfully appointed to the DPS, submi… |
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Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of Justice — The High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.