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SEND Passenger Transport Minibus Contract St Giles and Rutherford

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BuyerLondon Borough of Croydon
StatusClosed
Deadline1 Jun 2026
Value£7,070,000
Published30 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Croydon Council is looking for a supplier for to deliver minibus services for children/young people with Special Educational Needs/Disabilities for the SEND Passenger Transport Minibus Contract St Giles & Rutherfords schools. The service is for the provision of passenger transport services for vulnerable children, young people and adults for the London Borough of Croydon to St Giles and Rutherfords Schools for a 7-year contract period. This opportunity is available on the Croydon Tenders portal. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/croydontenders/aspx/Home

Delivery location

UKI62, GB

Categories

Road transport services 60100000Public road transport services 60112000Taxi services 60120000Special-purpose road passenger-transport services 60130000Non-scheduled passenger transport 60140000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
ValueAED 7,070,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2033

Award criteria
Quality (30%)
Social Value (10%)
Price (60%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Taxi services, Special-purpose road passenger-transport services, Road transport services, Public road transport services, Non-scheduled passenger transportNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 60. The category anchor is Road transport services (60100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 602,51714 median · 29.9 average (1,973 of 2,517 with a bid count)1.4 average (1,989 of 2,517 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI6211 median · 1 average (1 of 1 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 1 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)6430.5 median · 30.5 average (2 of 64 with a bid count)6.5 average (2 of 64 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-067eea
Latest release ID039952-2026
Latest release timestampThu Apr 30 2026 13:08:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039952-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-06-01T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-05-20T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-07-06T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://in-tendhost.co.uk/croydontenders/aspx/Home
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£7,070,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
30 Apr 2026tender039952-2026
9 Apr 2026planning032341-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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