Vehicle Tenders and Contracts

Vehicle procurement covers hire and leasing, from short-term rental frameworks to salary sacrifice car schemes and straight purchase, and the tracking, telematics and monitoring systems buyers fit to fleet vehicles. It is deliberately separate from ongoing fleet management and from vehicle repair and maintenance, which are their own categories with a different buyer intent.

Stotles brings together 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. Police and fire vehicle hire and purchases also appear on the Blue Light e-tendering portal, and most vehicle purchases are called off from frameworks.

Vehicle hire, leasing and tracking tenders are scored on price, vehicle availability and delivery times, service and support, and whole-life cost. Most purchases and leases are called off from frameworks, so suppliers need a framework place before they can be considered.

Vehicles supplied must meet UK road vehicle standards, and tracking and telematics providers must handle driver data in line with data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

The Government Commercial Agency runs a large multi-lot Vehicle Hire Solutions framework covering everything from cars to HGVs, and YPO runs a combined Vehicle Hire, Lease, Purchase and Services Portal used across the wider public sector. Individual authorities also run their own standalone hire and salary-sacrifice leasing contracts outside these frameworks.

Purchase and hire are often called off from shared frameworks split into lots by vehicle weight and type. Police forces buy cars and vans in regular batches, alongside councils, NHS trusts, ambulance services, water and energy utilities, colleges and universities.

Read fleet replacement plans, vehicle framework renewals, depot reviews and lease expiry dates, which show vehicle work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the fleet teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Vehicle notices carry 34100000 (Motor vehicles) and 50111100 (Vehicle-fleet-support services).