Official UK procurement notice
TVCA-PROC-0717 Darlington Bus Services 3 &4
Authority: Tees Valley Combined Authority (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA)(the 'Contracting Authority'), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group, have awarded a contract for the provision of Darlington Bus Service 3 & 4.
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
- Below threshold - without competition
- 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
- 18 Feb 2026, 10:06 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 09:23 BST
- Authority reference
TVCA-PROC-0717- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092138- Latest notice
- Contract termination notice (UK11)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0656baFind a Tender
Notice history
7 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Feb 2026- Transparency notice published18 Feb 2026, 10:06 GMTUK5
- Contract award notice published18 Feb 2026, 12:10 GMTUK6
- Contract signature expected23 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published20 Mar 2026, 16:27 GMTUK7
- Contract change notice published14 Jul 2026, 17:18 BSTUK10
- Contract change proposed17 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract termination notice published30 Sept 2026, 09:23 BSTUK11
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2026-02: 2 releases · 18 Feb 2026, 18 Feb 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arriva Durham County29 Mar 2026 – 18 Jul 2026 · up to 26 Sept 2026Extensions: Optional Extension of 2 months up to and including Saturday 26th September 2026. | £41,753 | 25 Nov 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Arriva Durham County
- Signed
- 9 Mar 2026
- Value
- £41,753
- Period
- 29 Mar 2026 – 18 Jul 2026 · up to 26 Sept 2026 with extensions
- Status
- terminated
- Extensions
- Optional Extension of 2 months up to and including Saturday 26th September 2026.
- Final value
- £41,753
- Termination
- contractCompleted
- Change proposed 17 Jul 2026 contract change notice published, new end date 26 Sept 2026
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- ARRIVA DURHAM COUNTY LIMITEDAwarded supplier
- ARRIVA DURHAM COUNTY LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract termination notice Contract termination notice on Find a Tender
- Contract change notice Contract change notice on Find a Tender
- 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