Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Other public bodyNorth East EnglandNewcastle upon Tyne

Official UK PPONPNTB-4383-VMJHWebsitenexus.org.uk ↗

Open now2next deadline 30 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months29+107% vs prior 12 months (14)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot44.4% single-bid · 135 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 135 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share30%of 30 awarded procedures · 32 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

30 awarded tenders, 32 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months124none within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£114mnet · on 137 of 186 published values · 49 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 78%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Bus Services FrameworkFramework8 lots30 Oct 20269d£200,000,000
NEX26/29- Metro Go Technical Services Contract29 Jan 202799d£8,000,000

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 43 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract88%(38 notices)
    38 of 43 notices are Contract (88%).
  • Framework12%(5 notices)
    5 of 43 notices are Framework (12%).
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open47%(20 notices)
    20 of 43 notices are Open (47%).
  • Direct award21%(9 notices)
    9 of 43 notices are Direct award (21%).
  • Route not published21%(9 notices)
    9 of 43 notices are Route not published (21%).
  • Selective9%(4 notices)
    4 of 43 notices are Selective (9%).
  • Limited / restricted2%(1 notices)
    1 of 43 notices are Limited / restricted (2%).
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 135 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=1354.4% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 19 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

42 daysrobust · n=19
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 43 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

123 of 43 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 61 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

16.9% above estimaterobust · n=61

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
GO NORTH EAST620%64911 Jun 2026
NORTHSTAR CONSTELLATION LIMITED620%64111 Jun 2026
CENTRAL TAXIS GATESHEAD LTD620%6286 May 2026
BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LIMITED620%62311 Jun 2026
L & G COACHES LTD310%31911 Jun 2026
Stanley Travel (North East) Ltd310%31911 Jun 2026
Jim Hughes Coaches Limited26.7%22219 Jun 2026
Darktrace Holdings Limited26.7%2217 Dec 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 30% of 30 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 32 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£114mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 137 of 186 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 78%; a further 14 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£82k middle valuerobust · n=137Middle half £64k–£189k; 49 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Sunderland Connect September 2025CITY TRANSPORT GROUP LTD15 Jul 20251 yrs£45,268,633
≈ £45m/yr
Nexus Cleaning servicesChurchill Contract Services Limited——£23,286,977 †
Security ServicesSTM Group (UK) Limited12 Nov 20253 yrs · up to 5 yrs£14,671,000
≈ £4.9m/yr
Metro Go Legal ServicesAddleshaw Goddard LLP6 May 20266.9 yrs · up to 9.9 yrs£4,000,000
≈ £578k/yr
Secured Bus Services July 2025CENTRAL TAXIS GATESHEAD LTD23 May 20251 yrs · up to 2 yrs£1,987,862
≈ £2.0m/yr

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published end dates only · 138 of 141 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 124 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 45 of 45 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
NEX26/32 Waste ManagementRefuse and waste related servicesPlanning5 Oct 2026£420,983
Data Governance & Management SupportBusiness analysis consultancy servicesPlanning5 Oct 2026—
NEX26/24 Control Centre RefurbishmentMiscellaneous fabricated products and related itemsCancelled1 Oct 2026£8,000,000
Nexus Cleaning ServicesCleaning servicesNot published30 Sept 2026—
Airport Route UpgradesConstruction work for buildings relating to railway transportOpen27 Aug 2026£16,000,000
NEX26/52 NEC4 Contract TrainingTraining servicesPlanning17 Aug 2026£200,000
RRV & Operator Hire Framework AgreementHire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operatorOpen6 Aug 2026£4,000,000
Secured Bus Services - Scholar and Miscellaneous - Sept 202686 lotsPublic road transport servicesAwarded / complete28 Jul 2026£5,721,290
Sunderland Connect Bus Services July 20262 lotsPublic-service busesAwarded / complete15 Jul 2026£550,955
Metro Go Legal ServicesLegal servicesAwarded / complete8 Jul 2026£4,000,000
Metro to WashingtonConstruction work for buildings relating to railway transportPlanning1 Jul 2026—
Metro Go - Pre Market EngagementInstallation of signalling equipmentPlanning1 Jul 2026—
Metro Assets Renewals ProgrammeInstallation of signalling equipmentPlanning1 Jul 2026—
Asset Management SystemSoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete25 Jun 2026£1,300,000
Secured Bus Services - July 202621 lotsPublic road transport servicesAwarded / complete15 Jun 2026£2,842,271
Sunderland Connect September 2025Public road transport servicesAwarded / complete27 May 2026£405,864
Sunderland Connect 700 701Awarded / complete8 May 2026—
Road Rail Vehicle ReplacementRailway maintenance or service vehiclesAwarded / complete6 May 2026£700,000
Taxibus Services - May 20263 lotsPublic road transport servicesAwarded / complete29 Apr 2026£106,318
Secured Bus Services - May 202611 lotsPublic road transport servicesAwarded / complete27 Apr 2026£1,254,530

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About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
  • Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
  • Contract end dates. 138 of 141 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.