Taxi Tenders and Contracts

Buyers procure home to school and SEND transport, non-emergency patient transport, and ad hoc staff or client journeys. Most of this work sits inside a framework or dynamic purchasing system covering many individual routes rather than one job.

Stotles brings together taxi tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Councils mostly award taxi routes by mini-competition from passenger transport dynamic purchasing systems, with lots split into standard and enhanced-needs transport.

Drivers and vehicles must be licensed by the local licensing authority as hackney carriages or private hire, and drivers and passenger assistants on school and SEND routes need enhanced DBS checks. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Local councils are regular buyers, arranging home to school and social care transport routes. NHS trusts and health boards also buy taxi services for patient transport and staff travel between sites.

Read school transport route reviews, home to school and SEND transport plans, framework and dynamic purchasing system renewal dates and patient transport reviews, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the councils and NHS trusts behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Taxi notices carry 60120000 (Taxi services), 60130000 (Special-purpose road passenger-transport services) and 60170000 (Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver). Many route awards carry only the general transport code 60000000.