Official UK procurement notice
Tees Flex Bus Service · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Tees Valley Combined Authority (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTees Valley Combined Authority (the 'Contracting Authority'), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group, have awarded a contract for the provision of Demand Responsive Transport Service - Tees Flex Bus Service.
Award of De Minimis bus transport subsidy contract in line with the Transport Act and Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004.
Local authorities or Passenger Transport Authorities/Executives with forecast expenditure on bus service subsidies in any one year of £600,000 or more will be able to spend up to 25% of this on de minimis contracts; within this 25% there is no limit on the expenditure in any one year that may be incurred on an individual de minimis contract or the amount of de minimis contract expenditure in any year with any single operator.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Jun 2025, 13:43 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jul 2025, 10:42 BST
- Authority reference
TVCA-PROC-0520- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-036316- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055005Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
Award of De Minimis bus transport subsidy contract in line with the Transport Act and Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004. This service is a daytime and evening extension of a current Arriva route. No other operator could viably provide the necessary connection due to Arriva providing the standard service.
Local authorities or Passenger Transport Authorities/Executives with forecast expenditure on bus service subsidies in any one year of £600,000 or more will be able to spend up to 25% of this on de minimis contracts; within this 25% there is no limit on the expenditure in any one year that may be incurred on an individual de minimis contract or the amount of de minimis contract expenditure in any year with any single operator.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Jun 2025 → 1 Jul 2025 · 2 dates- Standstill ends30 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published1 Jul 2025, 10:42 BST
Notice history
5 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Jun 2025- Transparency notice published19 Jun 2025, 13:43 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published19 Jun 2025, 14:05 BSTUK6
- Contract details notice published1 Jul 2025, 10:42 BSTUK7
- Buyer details updated1 Jul 2025, 10:42 BST
- Contract signature expected1 Jul 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEVELAND TRANSIT LTD2 Jul 2025 – 23 Aug 2025 | £532,709 | 18 Jun 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Tees Flex Bus Service · CLEVELAND TRANSIT LTD
- Signed
- 1 Jul 2025
- Value
- £532,709
- Period
- 2 Jul 2025 – 23 Aug 2025
- Status
- active
No agreed KPIs: Contract value is below £5 million including VAT.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeBidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- CLEVELAND TRANSIT LTD.Awarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender