Planning

Pre-Tender Market Engagement - Floating Car Data (FCD)

  • Tees Valley Combined Authority

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-048558

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05876b

Published 13 August 2025, 5:18pm



Scope

Reference

TVCA-PROC-0664

Description

Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group, seeks to engage the market through this Pre-Tender Market Engagement (PTME) exercise in preparation for the procurement of a Floating Car Data (FCD) provider to support Tees Valley Combined Authority's (TVCA) CRSTS-funded digital transport programme.

This PTME aims to:

• Understand the market's appetite, capabilities, and innovations in the provision of high-quality, real-time FCD solutions suitable for regional traffic management, journey time capture via speed monitoring and planning use cases.

• Validate suppliers' experience in delivering FCD services to local authorities or transport agencies, including integration with intelligent transport systems (ITS), digital twins, and AI-based traffic models.

• Assess the granularity, accuracy, latency, and sample penetration rates typically available from suppliers, and understand how these can be tailored to TVCA's road network.

• Explore indicative commercial models, licensing structures (e.g., data use rights, duration, geographical scope), and delivery timelines.

• Provide suppliers an opportunity to raise technical considerations (e.g., GDPR, data blending with fixed sensors, back-office integration) and propose innovative solutions to enhance data utility and value for money.

The final commission is expected to support FCD use across multiple applications, including traffic monitoring, incident detection, digital twin simulation, and road safety analysis, in alignment with TVCA's ambition to become the UK's first "Smart Region."

Please refer to the Pre-Tender Market Engagement documents for further detail. These can be found on the ProContract e-tendering portal:

https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=106d34a0-5578-f011-813a-005056b64545

You will need to register as a supplier to gain access to the documentation. Registration is free.

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 December 2025 to 30 November 2028
  • 3 years

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 34970000 - Traffic-monitoring equipment
  • 63712700 - Traffic control services
  • 63712710 - Traffic monitoring services

Contract locations

  • UKC1 - Tees Valley and Durham

Engagement

Engagement deadline

29 August 2025

Engagement process description

To respond to this pre-market engagement request, you must be registered to use the ProContract e-tendering portal at:

https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=106d34a0-5578-f011-813a-005056b64545

All completed responses must be submitted electronically via the portal using the submission template.

Should you require assistance in relation to the e-tender portal, please contact Proactis Supplier Support either on-line at https://suppliersupport.proactisservicedesk.com, via email to ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com or call 0330 0050 352.

Queries regarding this process and/or the content of this PTME should be submitted as clarification requests via the portal, no communication will be accepted via other means.


Contracting authority

Tees Valley Combined Authority

  • Companies House: 11747311
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDNG-8971-ZVCR

Teesside Airport Business Suite, Teesside International Airport

Darlington

DL2 1NJ

United Kingdom

Region: UKC13 - Darlington

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government