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title: "CS081 - Transport for Children's Services"
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# CS081 - Transport for Children's Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cs081-transport-for-children-s-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06037c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Middlesbrough Council: "CS081 - Transport for Children's Services". Published status: complete. Contract Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Middlesbrough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/middlesbrough-council-ons-e06000002)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - without competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UKC12
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £100,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cs081-transport-for-children-s-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06037c#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06037c`

## Before you bid
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- **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/cs081-transport-for-children-s-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06037c#tl-md)

## Description
The spend within children's services for transport is significant and whilst work has been ongoing within Children's Service to reduce the use of taxi's, there is still a demand some of which are court directed.
Currently local Providers are being used but prices are escalating year on year which is unsustainable.
Therefore, discussions have taken place with Uber who are currently expanding to provide a service to Local Authorities.
Uber have reviewed some of our current journeys along with costs and advised that they could bring a potential saving of 20%. Uber provide an online dashboard which details the number of journeys, spend, heatmap of journeys and data can also be exported. There is no cost for the dashboard, this will also be used for the bookings which will be limited to the safeguarding central admin team. This will ensure we have a robust process in place for bookings and ensure approval is in place.
We will initially start with 10 journeys and build this up slowly to ensure this is working well. They offer an increased level of checks for teen journey's which is something we don't currently have in place with the current Providers.
There will be no commitment made to Uber it will be a contract for as and when required.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 60000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **UBER LONDON LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-157692`
  - Value: £100,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £100,000
  - Signed Date: 31/12/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002174-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-01-12T10:59:33.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T11:39:13.506Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-06037c