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NoWcard Concessionary Travel System (Managed Service)

Software package and information systems
North West (UKD)
Official notice
Published value
£1,200,000
Submission deadline 12 Jun 2026, 11:00 BST
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Lancashire County Council: "NoWcard Concessionary Travel System (Managed Service)". Published status: active. Published value: £1,200,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 12 Jun 2026, 11:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityLancashire County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
12 Jun 2026, 11:00 BST
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£1,200,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Lancashire County Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Lancashire 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
7.8Bids / Report
7.1% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
STEPPING STONE PROJECTSTop vendor: 31.1% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 95 active published awards; 14 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
STEPPING STONE PROJECTS1 win£322,000
JMU SERVICES LIMITED1 win£314,238
CONSTRUCTION MARINE LIMITED1 win£216,667
JENOPTIK UK LIMITED1 win£180,940
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityLancashire County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
Last source update7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a385
What is being bought
NoWcard is a transport smart card pass, most commonly for the elderly or disabled, available for use in Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Lancashire County Council (LCC), Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool administrative areas. It is administered by LCC on behalf of all NoWcard members with the smart card recording journey details and verifies eligibility for the concessionary travel. LCC wish to engage a managed service provider to supply and maintain an ITSO (Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation) compliant NoWcard system, which is composed of the following components; 1. Asset Management System - Host Operator Processing System (AMS - HOPS) 2. ITSO Secure Application Module (ISAM) management 3. Cardholder and Card Management System (CMS) - English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) and Commercial Schemes 4. On-line application (web portal) - integration of ENCTS and existing commercial CMS 5. Print and Dispatch
What changed
From the official release history
  1. tender value changed
    7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
  4. Submission deadline changed to 12 Jun 2026, 11:00 BST
    7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    3 Oct 2025, 08:36 BST
  6. tender value changed
    26 Sept 2025, 16:18 BST
  7. Status changed to planned
    26 Sept 2025, 16:18 BST
  8. Official notice release published
    26 Sept 2025, 16:18 BST
  9. Buyer information updated
    26 Sept 2025, 16:18 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published value£1,200,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    7 May 2026, 15:56 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    12 Jun 2026, 11:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Lancashire County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PBBJ-2179-TNXM
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Documents (3)
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Related procedures (0)
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