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How to win: Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) - Vehicle Recovery & Roadside Assistance Services

A services contract from Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, worth £25,000,000. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime

Value

£25,000,000

About this contract

This UK2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is issued by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on behalf of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), the contracting authority, to notify the market of its intention to undertake preliminary market engagement in relation to a forthcoming procurement for Vehicle Recovery and Roadside Assistance Services. The PME is intended to provide potential suppliers with early market awareness of the proposed requirement, indicative scope, lotting approach, estimated value, intended procurement route and indicative procurement timetable. The MPS currently intends to conduct the future procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 using the competitive flexible procedure. A UK2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is used to provide information about how a contracting authority will engage, or has engaged, with suppliers before the formal tender notice is published. The PME will be hosted through the MPS eTendering platform, Coupa. Suppliers wishing to receive PME-specific communications, updates and clarification responses should register and tag to the PME opportunity in Coupa by the stated PME deadline. Suppliers may submit clarificati

How to win contracts like this

✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
✓At £25,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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