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East Lothian Council

DPS Transport for Education, Social care and other transport requirements (East Lothian Council)

TransportCPV 34121500
Value£43.7m
Deadline20 Apr 2034
Published17 Apr 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£43.7mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£47.2m

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

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) -…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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East Lothian Council ("ELC") are responsible

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.

02

Contracts operated through this DPS can generally

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.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

Source & provenance
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