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Home to School Transport - Minibuses

No classification published
Location not published
Published value
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Swindon Borough Council: "Home to School Transport - Minibuses". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySwindon Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Swindon Borough Council
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Published history for Swindon Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
12Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
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Coverage: 54 active published awards; 8 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySwindon Borough 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
Published27 Aug 2025, 13:36 BST
Last source update27 Aug 2025, 13:36 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-058e93
What is being bought
Home to School Transport - Minibuses for the period 1st September 2025 to 31st August 2026. Statutory service.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    27 Aug 2025, 13:36 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    27 Aug 2025, 13:36 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    27 Aug 2025, 13:36 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
    27 Aug 2025, 13:36 BST
  2. Award pending
    Not published · £1,646,604
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
SWINDON COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED
£1,646,604 · Not published · pending
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Swindon Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PNPT-6195-XDWV
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Award and contract changes
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 rationaleDirect Award - Urgency This is a transparency notice to inform the market that Swindon Borough Council is directly awarding a contract to Swindon Community Action Ltd for a period of 12 months from 1st September 2025 to 31st August 2026. This direct award is made under Section 41(1)(a) and Schedule 5, Paragraph 13 and 14 (Urgency) of the Procurement Act 2023. In July 2025, Swindon Borough Council undertook a Further Competition process for the provision of Home to School Transport Minibus services via the Councils existing Dynamic Procurement System (DPS). However, the Council was unable to conclude the successful award of call off contracts due to a combination of non-compliant tenders (such as specification compliance and mobilisation date) and Best Value considerations, specifically the affordability to operate the services. The post tender clarification process relating to specification compliance, contract mobilisation and route acceptance, delayed the evaluation process. As a direct result of the failure to conclude the award of the call off contracts, the Council now has to arrange the delivery of the services that are considered strictly necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency in time for the new school year. To minimise the number of routes to be directly awarded, existing contractual provisions for various Home to School transport contract extensions are being activated, however this leaves a total of 56 routes that need to be directly awarded for a total of £1,646,603.80 for a 12 month period. The proposed contract award will ensure continuity of these essential statutory services.