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Bus Franchising - Procurement & Commercial Services Support - Contract Award Notice
Authority: West Midlands Combined Authority
CPV: Procurement consultancy services (79418000)
Published contract value£1,125,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 Mar 2027
Awarded to Ernst & Young LLP
Contract starts 27 Oct 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract Award Notice to publish the award of a contract for the provision of Procurement and Commercial support services in relation to the West Midlands Bus Franchising Programme.
The contract is a call-off contract from the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Management Consultancy Framework 4 (MCF4).
The contract duration is for a period of 17 months, with an expiry date of 31/03/2027, and 2 x 12-month options to extend to a final, potential expiry of 31/03/2029.
Published procurement details
- Framework cited in notice
- Management Consultancy Framework Four (MCF4) · RM6309
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- tender_505054/1530170
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Published tender value
- £1,500,000.00
- Min Value
- £1,125,000.00
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- West Midlands, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Contract starts27 Oct 2025
- Award decision5 Nov 2025
- Notice published7 Nov 2025
- Contract ends31 Mar 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- West Midlands Combined AuthorityContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Ernst & Young LLPSupplier
- Identifier
- OC300001 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-6101f1cf-59ba-495b-bd4f-e9c9dde54b9a-2025-11-07T10:25:10Z
- Published
- 7 Nov 2025
- Latest update
- 7 Nov 2025
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-6101f1cf-59ba-495b-bd4f-e9c9dde54b9a
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-6101f1cf-59ba-495b-bd4f-e9c9dde54b9a-1