Prisoner Transport Vehicles Tenders and Contracts

Prisoner transport vehicle tenders are contracts for vehicles built or converted to move people in custody, including cellular prison vans, panel van conversions and response prisoner transport vans for police. Chassis, bodywork and conversion kits can be tendered with the vehicle or separately.

Stotles brings together prisoner transport vehicle 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. Prisoner transport vehicles are bought through single supplier frameworks or vehicle framework lots for police and emergency services.

Converted vehicles must meet vehicle type approval and conversion standards, and cellular fit-outs must meet the buyer's security specification. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Mostly as frameworks. Prison services have run single supplier framework contracts that other public bodies can use, and police vehicle lots are awarded to several manufacturers at once. One-off tenders appear for specialist designs such as a high security transport vehicle.

Prison services buy cellular custodial vehicles through single supplier framework contracts, and police forces buy response prisoner transport vans through BlueLight Commercial vehicle lots.

Read fleet replacement plans, vehicle framework renewal dates, custody service reviews and pre-market engagement notices for specialist vehicles, which show prisoner transport vehicle work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Prisoner-transport vehicles have their own code, 34114210. Notices usually carry related codes as well, such as panel vans 34136200, chassis cabs 34139100, vehicle bodies 34210000 and vehicle conversion and reconditioning services 50117000.