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Large Vehicle Passenger Transport Services (BB4) DPS

TransportCPV 60112000

Value£40.0m

Deadline20 Feb 2029

Published19 Nov 2025

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 19 Nov 2025901 days leftCloses 20 Feb 2029

Who to contact

Rosie O'Doherty

Rosie.Odoherty@leics.gov.uk

+44 1163051615

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

£40.0mtotal contract value

median £64k

this tender£0£43.2m

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

Leicestershire County Council publishes Transport Services work continuously — 678 notices, roughly one every 1 day. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

50% of Leicestershire County Council’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

Dynamic Purchasing System for Large Vehicle Passenger Transport Services (BB4) covering Mainstream, Special Education Needs and Social Care transport (excluding Local Bus Services).

9+ Passenger Seats.

This contract notice is only to advise the market that the DPS has been extended to 23 February 2029.

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

Dynamic Purchasing System for Large Vehicle Passenger Transport Services (BB4) covering Mainstream, Special Education Needs and Social Care transport

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

45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £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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