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DPS Transport for Education, Social care and other transport requirements (East Lothian Council)
Live: the notice is at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £43,717,860Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Thu 20 Apr 2034, 12:00 BSTOpen for bids.
- Published
- 17 Apr 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
East Lothian Council ("ELC") are responsible for the procurement of service transport contracts to meet the education and social care needs as well as other passenger requirements. Most of the transport will be within East Lothian area.
ELC is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System ("DPS") to procure these contracts. A DPS is completely electronic system and is similar to a framework agreement but a key difference is that, unlike a framework agreement, suppliers can join a DPS at any time.
Contracts operated through this DPS can generally be undertaken by taxis, private hire cars, minibuses and buses, including the requirement for those of these vehicles to be capable of carrying passengers in wheelchairs.
The DPS will be split into the following categories:
-Category 1: MPVs (5-8 seats), including salon cars (4 seats).
-Category 2: MPV- Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV)- (5-8 seats)
-Category 3: Minibus (9-16 seats), including wheelchair accessible vehicles
-Category 4: Vehicles above 17 seats
Contracts under the DPS will be awarded following mini competitions.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 34121500
- 34114400
- 60112000
- 34121000
- 60120000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 6 Mar 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 6 March 2026.
Release 020540-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 17 Apr 2026Tender notice
Tender notice published 17 April 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Thu 20 Apr 2034, 12:00 BST.
Release 034979-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06647e
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Framework
- Yes, as recorded by the source
- Last verified
- Tue 21 Apr 2026, 08:07 BST
- Read at
- Thu 29 Oct 2026, 04:07 GMT
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