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Supported Buses

Buyer: East Lothian Council →

BuyerEast Lothian Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published18 Mar 2025

What is being bought

The purpose of this tender invitation is to establish a Framework Agreement for the operation of supported bus services in East Lothian with a vision to creating an integrated transport network for East Lothian.

Delivery location

UKM73 · UKM73 · UKM73 · UKM73 · UKM73 · UKM73

Categories

Public road transport services 60112000Public road transport services 60112000

Lot details

Service 124

Service 124 (Option A)

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 20
price — 80

Service 113 – Western General

Service 113 (Option A).

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 20
price — 80

Service 122 (Gullane Circle)

Service 122 (Option A)

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 20
price — 80

Service 120 - Dunbar to North Berwick

Service 120 (Package offer, includes: Service 121 & Service 123).

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 20
price — 80

Service 110-Elphinstone to Prestonpans Rail Station only

Service 110 (Option 2)

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 20
price — 80

Service 111 Haddington to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

Service 111 (Option A)

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 20
price — 80

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
3Public road transport servicesNot published
2Public road transport servicesNot published
1Public road transport servicesNot published
4Public road transport servicesNot published
8Public road transport servicesNot published
9Public road transport servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 60. The category anchor is Public road transport services (60112000); 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 6015,3148 median · 20.1 average (13,609 of 15,314 with a bid count)1.3 average (13,746 of 15,314 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer719 median · 19 average (2 of 7 with a bid count)5 average (4 of 7 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKM731119 median · 19.8 average (4 of 11 with a bid count)8.7 average (6 of 11 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 byGPA
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

Contracts

Service 122 (Gullane Circle)

Statusactive
Value£261,480

Service 113 – Western General

Statusactive
Value£472,000

Service 124

Statusactive
Value£392,000

Service 120 - Dunbar to North Berwick

Statusactive
Value£1,990,256

Service 110-Elphinstone to Prestonpans Rail Station only

Statusactive
Value£426,420

Service 111 Haddington to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

Statusactive
Value£1,062,960

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04c1ee
Latest release ID009817-2025
Latest release timestampTue Mar 18 2025 09:57:40 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source6
Tender items in source6
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release6
Contracts in latest release6
Parties in latest release4

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Mar 2025award, contract009817-2025
3 Dec 2024tender038948-2024

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
18 Mar 2025 · 009817-2025 · award, contract
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3 Dec 2024 · 038948-2024 · tender
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