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Supply and Installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure DPS

ConstructionCPV 34928440

Value£3.3m

Deadline23 Feb 2029

Published29 Nov 2024

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 29 Nov 2024909 days leftCloses 23 Feb 2029

Who to contact

corporateprocurement@milton-keynes.gov.uk

+44 1908691691

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£3.3mtotal contract value

median £102k

this tender£0£3.6m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Miton Keynes City Council (The Council) wishes to invite applications for admission to the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for supply and installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure.

The Bus Stop Infrastructure DPS is required so that the delivery of the Council's capital programme of bus stop upgrade projects is supported by suitably qualified, experienced suppliers.

Any contracts that are to be awarded via this DPS will be done so via the terms of this DPS.

Tenders are expected to be run throughout the term of the DPS.

The resultant contracts will run for the period stated within the specification/requirement.

Invitations to Tender/further competition will be conducted.

Invitations to tender may be issued at any time during the term of the DPS .

The DPS is for a period 27 January 2025 - 23 February 2029.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

Tenders are expected to be run throughout

Tenders are expected to be run throughout the term of the DPS.

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.

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

Miton Keynes City Council (The Council) wishes to invite applications for admission to the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for supply and installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure.

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

25–40 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

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

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