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title: "Supply of Service Buses"
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# Supply of Service Buses

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-of-service-buses-ocds-h6vhtk-041a84). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Translink: "Supply of Service Buses". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Jan 2024, 15:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Translink](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/translink-GB-PPON-PTMT-7134-NRMV)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 January 2024 at 15:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Buses and coaches
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-041a84`

## 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/supply-of-service-buses-ocds-h6vhtk-041a84#tl-md)

## Description
Translink are intending to establish one/several framework(s) aimed at delivering cost effective and agile means to replace low floor, wheelchair accessible, zero emission (Battery Electric or Fuel Cell), single and double deck buses used for bus urban and rural operations throughout Northern Ireland. The number and duration of the framework(s) has not been confirmed but it is anticipated it/they will be Single Supplier Framework(s). Once established the framework(s) does not guarantee any orders from Translink as any potential order is subject to funding. 
To that end Translink wishes to invite suitably interested Economic Operators to present in Belfast in Quarter 1 2024 their current and future capability and capacity in these areas.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKN

- **Description:** High specification Zero Emission single and double deck buses:- Max length - 12m Max width – 2.55m Max height – 4.4m Min Range – 150 miles Capacity Circa 80  
Propulsion types – both Electric Vehicle or Fuel Cell Additional information: It is the int...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F033966-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-11-16T15:11:17.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T07:41:09.352Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-041a84