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Blackburn with Darwen

DPS for Home To School Transport

TransportCPV 60000000
Value£3.5m
Deadline20 Apr 2027
Published21 Apr 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 21 Apr 2023270 days leftCloses 20 Apr 2027
Who to contact
Peter Hughes
peter.hughes@blackburn.gov.uk
+44 1254585216

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.5mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£3.8m

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.

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The brief

This is a four year DPS framework agreement under which we will run further competitions for home to school transport services.

All operators that meet the criteria to be on the framework agreement will get the opportunity to bid in further competitions for specific routes at any time during the DPS.

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
ocds-h6vhtk-03c27a
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
011429-2023
View the original notice on Find a Tender

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

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