Procurement

218_26 Specialist Vehicle Contract Hire/Leasing

  • Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-051d0c

Description

ESPO is a public sector-owned professional buying organisation offering a comprehensive range of procurement services, including access to over 100 free-to-access framework solutions for the wider public sector.

ESPO are establishing a framework for the medium/long term hire/lease of specialist vehicles, including internal combustion engine and alternatively fuelled options.

The Framework is divided into 9 lots:

Lot 1. Refuse collection vehicles (RCV's)

Lot 2. Sweepers

Lot 3. Winter maintenance vehicles

Lot 4. Gully emptiers

Lot 5. Buses and minibuses

Lot 6. Tippers

Lot 7. Loaders

Lot 8. Other specialist vehicles

Lot 9. Mixed specialist vehicle fleet

Note: The value per lot as captured in this notice is for the overall framework (with this same overall value being captured per lot), as ESPO offers no guarantees or estimates of value that may pass through each individual lot (but the overall usage across all lots is not expected to exceed this overall framework value).

Please refer to the tender documents for further details (including further details on each of the lots) - the closing date for submission of Tenders is 12:00 (12 noon / 12pm) on 15 May 2026.

To tender (please proceed to step (e) if an expression of interest has already been completed):

(a) Go to https://www.eastmidstenders.org/ (b) Register (if not already registered on ProContract); (c) Search for tender opportunity '218_26' (via "View Opportunities" from the EastMidsTenders Portal); (d) Express an interest; (e) Download the tender documents (from the ProContract Activity summary screen).

Any questions or clarifications relating to this tender opportunity should be submitted to ESPO as a message on the eProcurement Portal, once an Expression of interest has been completed.

Notices

UK4: Tender notice

Notice identifier
2026/S 000-034176
Published
15 April 2026, 12:51pm

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

Notice identifier
2025/S 000-083539
Published
16 December 2025, 4:36pm

UK1: Pipeline notice

Notice identifier
2025/S 000-024615
Published
22 May 2025, 11:15am