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Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats) Passenger Assistant - Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats) Passenger Assistant

Open United Kingdom Transport services

Buyer East Sussex County Council

4 days left

Key facts

Closes
10:00 (UTC+1)
Competition
Open race
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 5 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

4 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, restricted procedure) give a median of 15 days, half of them between 7 and 29 days, based on 166 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

This buyer usually gives 3 days (median of its last 10 calls for tender). It extended none of the 51 deadlines we followed from publication.

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The Aperlena Verdict

Open race

No supplier dominates: 23 different companies have won the last 57 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.

Based on 57 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.

Summary

Machine-generated summary

This tender seeks a passenger assistant to travel with a child in a saloon taxi or MPV with 1 to 8 seats on the school run. The route runs from postcode TN39 4SB to TN21 9DB on Wednesday and Thursday and to BN26 6TX on Friday, operating on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday only. School time each day is 09:00 to 11:45. The child has ASD with significantly elevated anxiety levels and may enter fight, flight or freeze states, so the assistant must manage difficult emotional states, and the vehicle must have child locks on the doors. The opportunity is distributed on SProc.net.

Key points

Vehicle type: Saloon Passenger Assistant Required: Yes Proposed Taxi Route: From: TN39 4SB To: TN21 9DB (Wednesday & Thursday) BN26 6TX (Friday) Frequency: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday only Daily School Time: 09:00 to 11:45 Wednesday, Thursday & Friday Comments for Operator: ASD, significantly elevated anxiety levels - fight, flight or freeze states to manage difficult emotional states. Child locks on doors. This opportunity has been distributed on SProc.net
Original text
Vehicle type: Saloon Passenger Assistant Required: Yes Proposed Taxi Route: From: TN39 4SB To: TN21 9DB (Wednesday & Thursday) BN26 6TX (Friday) Frequency: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday only Daily School Time: 09:00 to 11:45 Wednesday, Thursday & Friday Comments for Operator: ASD, significantly elevated anxiety levels - fight, flight or freeze states to manage difficult emotional states. Child locks on doors. This opportunity has been distributed on SProc.net

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. Check this first:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Restricted procedure: suppliers first ask to take part, and only those the buyer selects are invited to bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Transport services.

  4. Check this first:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    4 days left.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €19,787 and €66,914.

  6. In your favour:

    Do we know this buyer?

    23 different companies won the last 57 comparable contracts.

Can I bid?

  • Restricted procedure: suppliers first ask to take part, and only those the buyer selects are invited to bid.
  • Documents in English.

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Source: Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office)

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 739 awards for Transport services in United Kingdom.

Median award
€33,767
Middle half of past awards
€19,787 to €66,914

Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

East Sussex County Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
119
awards
109
awarded in total
€318,410

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
66
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
18%
of its calls state an estimated value
9%

Based on 107 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Southern Travel Solutions Ltd 8 Oct 2026
Brighton Taxi Company 7 Sep 2026
Sussex Cars Association 5 Sep 2026
Eastbourne taxi 3 Oct 2026
Edwards Cars and Minibuses 3 Sep 2026

Based on 57 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

3 open tenders right now

Market context

Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.

open now in Transport services
1,839
median open notice
€552,970

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Transport services

different companies won awards here
447
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
78

Based on 1,346 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Competition

tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
9.8
of those lots received a single tender
0%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
0%
of the tenders came from another country
0%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

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