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title: "Provision of Transport for Harper and Keele Veterinary School 2022/23 to 2024/2025 Academic Years"
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# Provision of Transport for Harper and Keele Veterinary School 2022/23 to 2024/2025 Academic Years

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-transport-for-harper-and-keele-veterinary-school-2022-23-to-2024-2025-academi-ocds-h6vhtk-034b2e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Keele University Science And Business Park: "Provision of Transport for Harper and Keele Veterinary School 2022/23 to 2024/2025 Academic Years". Published status: complete. Published Value: £395,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Keele University Science And Business Park](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/keele-university-science-and-business-park-coh-05215238)
- **Published Value:** £395,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 1 August 2022 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Hire of buses and coaches with driver, Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver, Using coach
- **Delivery Location:** UKG, UKG24
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £399,840 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-transport-for-harper-and-keele-veterinary-school-2022-23-to-2024-2025-academi-ocds-h6vhtk-034b2e#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-034b2e`

## 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/provision-of-transport-for-harper-and-keele-veterinary-school-2022-23-to-2024-2025-academi-ocds-h6vhtk-034b2e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost%2Funiversityofkeele%2Faspx%2FHome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-transport-for-harper-and-keele-veterinary-school-2022-23-to-2024-2025-academi-ocds-h6vhtk-034b2e#participate

## Description
The main reason not to sub-divide this into lots, given the need for one Service Provider to coordinate the delivery of all of the services required. The transport of Year 1 Students, Year 2 Students and Year 3 Students for the Academic Years 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 for Harper and Keele Vet School students to attend joint lectures and other joint 
 teaching across the two sites.
The contract will commence Academic Year 2022/2023 starting on 3rd October 2022 and ending Academic Year 2024/2025 ending 23rd May 2025 for transport requirements.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 60170000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Estimated Value:** £395,000
- **Description:** The transport of Year 1 Students, Year 2 Students and Year 3 Students for the Academic Years 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and
2024/2025 for Harper and Keele Vet School students to attend joint lectures and other joint teaching across the two sites.
The contr...
- **Contract Period:** 02/10/2022 to 23/05/2025
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Provision of Transport for Harper and Keele Veterinary School 2022/23 to 2024/2025 Academic Years (active)
  - Award id: `030066-2022-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Holmeswood Coaches Ltd T/A Bostock's Coaches**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-56371`
  - Value: £399,840 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Provision of Transport for Harper and Keele Veterinary School 2022/23 to 2024/2025 Academic Years (active)
  - Signed Value: £399,840
  - Signed Date: 31/07/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F030066-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-10-25T14:01:15.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T21:49:38.036Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-034b2e