The Borough Council of Calderdale
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) – Home to School/College Transport Services
The procurement contact named on the official notice.
The submission route named on the official notice.
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.
The Borough Council of Calderdale has published 272 notices across all categories, and 69% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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The Borough Council of Calderdale (the Council) is seeking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) with Service Providers who meet the Selection Criteria set out in the Selection Questionnaire (SQ) for home to school/college transport services in Calderdale.
If selected, Service Providers will be eligible to bid for Services through mini-competitions issued under the DPS.
The evaluation criteria for mini-competitions will be based on price only.
Providers may apply to join the DPS by submitting a request to participate in the DPS at any point during the period of validity of the DPS.
The period of validity of the DPS is 07/10/23 to 31/07/28.
To submit a request to participate, providers must submit a completed SQ alongside the other documents referred to in the Invitation to Participate.
What the notice asks for
To submit a request to participate, providers
To submit a request to participate, providers must submit a completed SQ alongside the other documents referred to in the Invitation to Participate.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
What this notice demands of you
1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) – Home to School/College Transport Services
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What it takes to bid this
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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