RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · preprocurement 84 days to close

London Borough of Hackney

Passenger Transport Dynamic Purchasing System

TransportCPV 60140000 60130000 60170000
Value£5.0m
Deadline30 Nov 2026
Published29 Nov 2022
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 29 Nov 202284 days leftCloses 30 Nov 2026
Contract value in context
£5.0mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£5.4m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

London Borough of Hackney publishes Transport Services work continuously — 19 notices, roughly one every 43 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

35% of London Borough of Hackney’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →


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The brief

Passenger Transport SEND Home to School Ad Hoc Coach and Ad Hoc taxi

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Passenger Transport Dynamic Purchasing System

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidOperator licences / driver vetting (DBS for passenger transport)
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
2da92d2b-0fbf-4e72-9e7a-e38a728d92a3
Stage
preprocurement · Open
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
HACK001-DN547719-00739425
View the original notice on Contracts Finder

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

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