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title: "January 2024 Local Bus Services"
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# January 2024 Local Bus Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/january-2024-local-bus-services-ocds-h6vhtk-042a79). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority: "January 2024 Local Bus Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 2 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (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:** 2 February 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Road transport services, Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
- **Delivery Location:** UKH12
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £2,342,094 (exc. VAT, 6 contracts)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-042a79`

## 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/january-2024-local-bus-services-ocds-h6vhtk-042a79#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3D2a10d3c2-6d9e-ee11-8127-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/january-2024-local-bus-services-ocds-h6vhtk-042a79#participate

## Description
The Authority has awarded services contracts to multiple suppliers for the following requirements:
• The supply of local bus services (contracts 5A, 8, 15, 26, 27, 31A, 36A, 46A, 61, 68 and Ely Zipper 2.
• Contracts funded with money allocated by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) to support local bus services.
• Until 30th March 2025.
• 1 year option to extend.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: The 11 separate routes will be treated as individual Lots
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 34000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** The Authority is planning to award eleven (11) separate contracts relating to the provision of Local Bus Services. The contracts start on Monday 1st April 2024. The contractor must be able to provide the full service required from the start date stat...
- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2024 to 31/03/2025
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (6)
- **Award:** 036366-2024-Contract 46A-3 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Star Cabs Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-132184`
  - Value: £19,240 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 036366-2024-Contract 5A, 26, 27, 31A-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Stagecoach East**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-131870`
  - Value: £1,209,250 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 036366-2024-Contract 61-4 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Vectare Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-PPON:PYJR-5358-NMDP`
  - Value: £224,352 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 036366-2024-Contract 68-5 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Stagecoach East Midlands**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-14452`
  - Value: £212,852 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 036366-2024-Contract 8-2 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Ron W Dew & Son Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-129990`
  - Value: £302,480 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 036366-2024-Contract Ely Zipper 2-6 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Stephensons of Essex Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-129601`
  - Value: £373,920 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (6)
- **Contract:** 036366-2024-Contract 46A-3 (active)
  - Signed Value: £19,240
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2024

- **Contract:** 036366-2024-Contract 5A, 26, 27, 31A-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,209,250
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2024

- **Contract:** 036366-2024-Contract 61-4 (active)
  - Signed Value: £224,352
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2024

- **Contract:** 036366-2024-Contract 68-5 (active)
  - Signed Value: £212,852
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2024

- **Contract:** 036366-2024-Contract 8-2 (active)
  - Signed Value: £302,480
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2024

- **Contract:** 036366-2024-Contract Ely Zipper 2-6 (active)
  - Signed Value: £373,920
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F036366-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-11-11T10:25:33.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T05:24:49.816Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-042a79