CSKL & TPPL Vehicle Rental Framework 2025

CSKL invited tenders for organisations to participate in a 48-month Framework Agreement (‘the Agreement’) for the rental of vehicles, including passenger cars, accessible/non-accessible minibuses/coaches, light/medium commercials, heavy goods vehicles, and car clubs/pool car schemes. The Agreement will be used by CSKL and may also be used by all Local Authorities and other organisations (“Eligible Bodies”) located in the United Kingdom.

Hire of Passenger Cars and Light Commercial Vehicles including vehicles operating on Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid, Electric, LPG (liquid petroleum gas), Hydrogen and Biofuels. Includes on/off road 4x4 vehicles up to 3.5 tonne, and the hire of vehicles with body conversions including but not limited to tippers, dropside, Luton, flat, curtain-side, recycling, aerial platform, jetter, cranes, street lighting and any other body type an Authority may require, including all vehicle racking.

Additional information: Vehicles types and associated services that may not be easily identifiable as part of the procurement documents can be specified by individual Eligible Bodies during their call-off processes. Therefore other vehicles and services that are related to the focus of this Agreement are expected to be provided as part of this Agreement within the closest relevant Lot(s).

Hire of Minibuses Buses, Buses and Coaches with any number of seats including vehicles operating on Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid, Electric, LPG (liquid petroleum gas), Hydrogen and Biofuel. Accessible/non-accessible welfare buses will be van or coach-built.

Coaches can be articulated, double or single decked or any other body type an authority may require. Additional information: Vehicles types and associated services that may not be easily identifiable as part of the procurement documents can be specified by individual Eligible Bodies during their call-off processes.

Therefore other vehicles and services that are related to the focus of this Agreement are expected to be provided as part of this Agreement within the closest relevant Lot(s). Hire of Medium Commercial Vehicles (MCVs) from 3.5 tonnes to 12.5 tonnes, Hire of Sweepers, including pedestrian, sub-compact, compact, mid-size and truck-mounted (up to 18.5 tonnes).

Hire of Heavy Goods Vehicles up to 44t. Vehicles hired may operate on Diesel, Petrol, Hybrid, Electric, LPG, Hydrogen, and Biofuels or any other alternative powered drivetrain.

Hire of medium commercial vehicles can include vehicles with body conversions including but not limited to tippers, drop-side, Luton, flat, curtain-side, recycling, aerial platform, jetter, cranes, street lighting and any other body type an Authority may require, including all vehicle racking. Hire of heavy goods vehicles can include those with specialist and municipal bodies and conversions including but not limited to tippers, dropside, flat, beavertail, curtain-side, box, Luton, refuse collection, bin lifts and recycling bodies, gritter, snowplough and auger spreaders, tanker, gully emptier, aerial platforms, hook loader and demountable body systems, jetter, cranes, mobile library and offices, vehicle and plant recovery, street lighting and highway maintenance bodies, generators, temporary lighting and any other body type an Authority may require including associated trailers.

Additional information: Vehicles types and associated services that may not be easily identifiable as part of the procurement documents can be specified by individual Eligible Bodies during their call-off processes. Therefore other vehicles and services that are related to the focus of this Agreement are expected to be provided as part of this Agreement within the closest relevant Lot(s).

Hire of Passenger Cars and Light Commercial Vehicles on a longer-term and/or flexible duration. To include vehicles operating on Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid, Electric, LPG (liquid petroleum gas), Hydrogen and Biofuels.

Includes all the vehicles scoped under lots 1, 2 & 3, or any other body type an Authority may require, including all vehicle racking. Additional information: Vehicles types and associated services that may not be easily identifiable as part of the procurement documents can be specified by individual Eligible Bodies during their call-off processes.

Therefore other vehicles and services that are related to the focus of this Agreement are expected to be provided as part of this Agreement within the closest relevant Lot(s). Access to, or creation of car club schemes as required by an Authority.

Types of schemes can include (but are not limited to) dedicated schemes, for which vehicles are dedicated only for use by the Authority. Access to publicly available schemes for the Authority.

An Authority could seek a blended or mixed scheme comprising a combination of dedicated and publicly accessible vehicles. Alternatively, an Authority can engage with the supplier to use their software and systems to create a scheme using the Authority’s existing vehicles and infrastructure.

Vehicle types to be available under schemes includes (but is not limited to) Passenger Cars and Light Commercial Vehicles including those operating on Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid, Electric, LPG (liquid petroleum gas), Hydrogen and Bio fuels. Includes on/off road 4x4 vehicles up to 3.5 tonne.

Additional information: Vehicles types and associated services that may not be easily identifiable as part of the procurement documents can be specified by individual Eligible Bodies during their call-off processes. Therefore other vehicles and services that are related to the focus of this Agreement are expected to be provided as part of this Agreement within the closest relevant Lot(s).