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title: "2025 Tiger Routes - local bus services"
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# 2025 Tiger Routes - local bus services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-tiger-routes-local-bus-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04d59f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority: "2025 Tiger Routes - local bus services". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 24 Feb 2025, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-combined-authority-ons-e47000008)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 24 February 2025 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Motor vehicles for the transport of 10 or more persons, Road transport services
- **Delivery Location:** UKH11, UKH12
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04d59f`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-tiger-routes-local-bus-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04d59f#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3D8e915a5c-4fd9-ef11-8133-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-tiger-routes-local-bus-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04d59f#participate

## Description
The Authority is seeking to award bus services contracts to multiple suppliers for the following requirements:
•	The supply of local bus services (contracts Tiger 1, Tiger 2 & 3, Tiger 4, Tiger 5, Tiger 7, Tiger 9 and Tiger 12).
•	Contracts funded with money allocated by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) to support local bus services.
•	From 27th May 2025 for 12 months + 12 months + 12 months.
The Authority is planning to award seven (7) separate contracts relating to the provision of Local Bus Services.  The contracts start on Tuesday 27th May 2025.  The contractor must be able to provide the full service required from this start date.
The Authority reserves the right not to conclude a contract for the service for which the Tender is invited.
The Route Schedule details the requirements for these contracts, such as the route, timetable, type of vehicle, and type of ticketing equipment to be used.
Any extra requirements relating to the contracts that are not covered in the ITT document or in the Conditions of Contract will be displayed in the Route Schedule under ‘Special Conditions’.
Potential providers are encouraged to consider how the contracts they are tendering for can be integrated with the commercial bus network, where applicable.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: The 7 separate routes will be treated as individual Lots
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 34120000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** The Authority is planning to award seven (7) separate contracts relating to the provision of Local Bus Services. The contracts start on Tuesday the 27th of  May 2025. The contractor must be able to provide the full service required from the start dat...
- **Contract Period:** 26/05/2025 to 
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002312-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-01-23T08:25:41.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T05:25:20.195Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04d59f