Vehicle Hire Solutions

Summary

All UK public sector organisations can hire vehicles to use in the UK and overseas for operational fleet, business travel and solutions such as car share.

Description

Provides you with access to a wide range of short or long term vehicle hire services including:

a range of vehicles which you can hire for:
- business travel such as hiring a car to get to a meeting
- operational fleets: vehicles which are needed to complete day to day job functions such as grounds maintenance vehicles
- seasonal needs such as road gritters or grass cutters
- emergency services/specialist vehicles
a full range of rental durations to help meet your needs such as:
- car share models with hourly rates
- flexible rentals for use over 28 days

We are also looking into the option of new services for:

vehicle hire management solutions such as suppliers managing the entire hire process with multiple rental companies
mobility as a service: a digital solution which makes many modes of transport available for smart booking and vehicle allocation

This agreement will go live in August 2023 and replace:

We expect that this agreement will run for 4 years with no option to extend.

Customer engagement

We began customer engagement in early summer 2021. To get involved or to share your feedback, email the team.

Supplier engagement

We held a virtual supplier industry day on the 9 March 2022. Read the industry day presentation slides.

We have drafted the following important contractual documents:

We would be grateful for supplier feedback on these documents by 16 August 2022. You can use the following forms to provide feedback:

Important links

Prior Information Notice (PIN)	Read PIN
Contract Notice in Find a Tender Service (FTS)	Not available yet
Tender documents	Not available yet

Timeline

Activity	Estimated dates
Pre-market engagement	Summer 2021 to August 2022
Drafting of procurement documents	June 2022 to August 2022
Publication of FTS notice	19 October 2022
Framework award	19 April 2023