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Award of De Minimis Bus Subsidy Contracts 2025 2026

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Published value
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: Leicestershire County Council: "Award of De Minimis Bus Subsidy Contracts 2025 2026". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityLeicestershire County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Leicestershire County Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Leicestershire County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
49.6Bids / Report
25% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
BID SERVICESTop vendor: 51.2% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 174 active published awards; 12 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
BID SERVICES1 win£2,400,000
Living Without Abuse2 wins£745,920
FreeVa2 wins£453,600
BENTLEY PROJECT MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED4 wins£402,770
Gambling with Lives1 win£186,250
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityLeicestershire County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published30 Jul 2025, 10:45 BST
Last source update30 Jul 2025, 10:45 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05605f
What is being bought
NOTE: This notice replaces notice identifier reference 2025/S 000-043527 Award of a number of subsidy contracts. These contracts are exempt from the Procurement Act 2023 regulations as they are awarded on a De Minimis basis as provided for under the Transport Act and Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004. Local authorities or Passenger Transport Authorities/Executives with forecast expenditure on bus service subsidies in any one year of £600,000 or more will be able to spend up to 25% of this on de minimis contracts; within this 25% there is no limit on the expenditure in any year with any single operator.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    30 Jul 2025, 10:45 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    28 Jul 2025, 14:46 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    16 Jul 2025, 15:21 BST
  4. Status changed to complete
    16 Jul 2025, 14:32 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    16 Jul 2025, 14:32 BST
  6. Buyer information updated
    16 Jul 2025, 14:32 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    30 Jul 2025, 10:45 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  4. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  5. Contract active
    Signed 25 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · £331,024
  6. Contract active
    Signed 16 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · £30,000
  7. Contract active
    Signed 16 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · £31,185
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
CENTREBUS LIMITED
Not published · Not published · active
Central Connect Transport Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Kinchbus Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
De Minimis subsidy for service 154 (M-F and Sun). Contract numbers 0632 - 0643 (Mon - Fri) and 0644-0646 (Sun)
£331,024 · signed 25 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · active
Contract period: 26 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST — 16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
De Minimis subsidy for service 93. Contract number 0624-0631
£30,000 · signed 16 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · active
Contract period: 17 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST — 31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
De Minimis subsidy for service 2. Contract number 0648-0649.
£31,185 · signed 16 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST · active
Contract period: 17 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST — 16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Leicestershire County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PNHT-9235-VXDV
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied

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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleAward of a number of De Minimis transport subsidy contracts to support existing transport infrastructure in Leicestershire. Awarded to transport providers who are already delivering services registered with the Transport Commissioner. Each service is registered to a single supplier therefore there is no open competition available. These contracts are exempt from the Procurement Act 2023 regulations as they are awarded on a De Minimis basis as provided for under the Transport Act and Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004. Local authorities or Passenger Transport Authorities/Executives with forecast expenditure on bus service subsidies in any one year of £600,000 or more will be able to spend up to 25% of this on de minimis contracts; within this 25% there is no limit on the expenditure in any year with any single operator.