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ClosedFind a Tender · UK4
BuyerCambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
StatusClosed
Deadline10 Oct 2025
Value£2,400,000
Published16 Sept 2025

What is being bought

The Authority is seeking to award a bus service contract to a supplier for the following requirements: The supply of local bus services (Littleport, Ely and through to Cambridge) Contracts funded with money allocated by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority to support local bus services. From 1st January 2026 for 24 months + 12 months. The Authority is seeking to award a contract relating to the provision of Local Bus Services. The contract starts on Thursday 1st January 2026. 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.

Categories

Transport services (excl. Waste transport) 60000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£2,400,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2027

Award criteria
Quality (50%)
Price (50%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Transport services (excl. Waste transport)Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 60. The category anchor is Transport services (excl. Waste transport) (60000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 602,88413 median · 28.3 average (2,254 of 2,884 with a bid count)1.4 average (2,271 of 2,884 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer5Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)815 median · 8.2 average (5 of 81 with a bid count)3.4 average (5 of 81 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-059b6f
Latest release ID057001-2025
Latest release timestampTue Sep 16 2025 13:46:34 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057001-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2025-10-10T11:00:00Z
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailsInterested parties are invited to download and engage with the opportunity by; (a) Going to: https://procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities (b) Select Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority from the organization list (c) Searching for opportunity: Bus Services 10, 10A and X10; Ref: DN790649 (d) Express an interest (e) Access and download the Tender documents from the website and respond in accordance with the contained instructions. Alternatively, you can access the direct link to the opportunity here: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=4267b6d6-f392-f011-813a-005056b64545&fromProjectDashboard=True
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,400,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
16 Sept 2025tender057001-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
16 Sept 2025 · 057001-2025 · tender
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