25056 Provision of Bus Tickets for Home to School services from Stagecoach

{
  "awards": [
    {
      "aboveThreshold": true,
      "contractPeriod": {
        "endDate": "2026-08-31T23:59:59+01:00",
        "maxExtentDate": "2027-08-31T23:59:59+01:00",
        "startDate": "2025-09-01T00:00:00+01:00"
      },
      "documents": [
        {
          "datePublished": "2025-07-16T13:50:14+01:00",
          "description": "Transparency notice on Find a Tender",
          "documentType": "awardNotice",
          "format": "text/html",
          "id": "040525-2025",
          "noticeType": "UK5",
          "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040525-2025"
        }
      ],
      "hasRenewal": true,
      "id": "1",
      "items": [
        {
          "additionalClassifications": [
            {
              "description": "Transport services (excl. Waste transport)",
              "id": "60000000",
              "scheme": "CPV"
            }
          ],
          "deliveryAddresses": [
            {
              "country": "GB",
              "countryName": "United Kingdom",
              "region": "UKH12"
            }
          ],
          "id": "1",
          "relatedLot": "1"
        }
      ],
      "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
      "milestones": [
        {
          "dueDate": "2025-08-01T23:59:59+01:00",
          "id": "1",
          "status": "scheduled",
          "type": "futureSignatureDate"
        }
      ],
      "relatedLots": [
        "1"
      ],
      "renewal": {
        "description": "12 month from Sept 2026 to August 2027"
      },
      "status": "pending",
      "suppliers": [
        {
          "id": "GB-COH-02381778",
          "name": "STAGECOACH SERVICES LIMITED"
        }
      ],
      "title": "25056 Provision of Bus Tickets for Home to School services from Stagecoach",
      "value": {
        "amount": 312000,
        "amountGross": 312000,
        "currency": "GBP"
      }
    }
  ],
  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-PPON-PJVB-3262-VGVJ",
    "name": "Cambridgeshire County Council"
  },
  "date": "2025-07-16T13:50:14+01:00",
  "id": "040525-2025",
  "initiationType": "tender",
  "language": "en",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-056051",
  "parties": [
    {
      "address": {
        "country": "GB",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon",
        "postalCode": "PE28 4YE",
        "region": "UKH12",
        "streetAddress": "New Shire Hall Emery Crescent Enterprise Campus,"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "procurementandcommercial@cambridgeshire.gov.uk"
      },
      "details": {
        "classifications": [
          {
            "description": "Public authority - sub-central government",
            "id": "publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE"
          }
        ]
      },
      "id": "GB-PPON-PJVB-3262-VGVJ",
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PJVB-3262-VGVJ",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "name": "Cambridgeshire County Council",
      "roles": [
        "buyer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "additionalIdentifiers": [
        {
          "id": "PGMB-3997-GYTP",
          "scheme": "GB-PPON"
        }
      ],
      "address": {
        "country": "GB",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Stockport",
        "postalCode": "SK1 3SW",
        "region": "UKD35",
        "streetAddress": "One Stockport Exchange"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "business.development@stagecoach.com"
      },
      "details": {
        "scale": "large",
        "vcse": false
      },
      "id": "GB-COH-02381778",
      "identifier": {
        "id": "02381778",
        "scheme": "GB-COH"
      },
      "name": "STAGECOACH SERVICES LIMITED",
      "roles": [
        "supplier"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tag": [
    "award",
    "contract"
  ],
  "tender": {
    "description": "To procure public transport bus tickets from bus operators to support home to school statutory transport.\nThe transport team would like to use Regulation 41 (PA2023) to award to the required bus operators - namely Stagecoach as no competition can exist due to technical considerations.\nThe annual value of this procurement is \u00a3156,000. The Total being \u00a3312,00\nBus tickets are exempt from VAT\nThis is to cover 25/26 and 26/7\nTo allow for the continued use of bus tickets as an option for providing statutory home to school transport services.\nTo find a compliance and suitable route to procure such services and ensure there is a clear contract/agreement in place for such services.\nTo find a medium to long term solution",
    "documents": [
      {
        "description": "Not published",
        "documentType": "conflictOfInterest",
        "id": "conflictOfInterest"
      }
    ],
    "id": "25056",
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "2023/54",
      "scheme": "UKPGA",
      "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents"
    },
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "status": "complete"
      }
    ],
    "procurementMethod": "direct",
    "procurementMethodDetails": "Direct award",
    "procurementMethodRationale": "Our requirement is to utilise a supply of bus tickets - these are only provided and are non-transferrable by the bus operator awarded the route by the Cambridgeshire \u0026 Peterborough Combined Authority\nIn some cases, the route might not be tendered as it is deemed a commercially viable route and so bus operators can set up a route in agreement with the Traffic commissioner.",
    "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [
      {
        "id": "singleSuppliersIntellectualPropertyExclusiveRights"
      }
    ],
    "status": "complete",
    "title": "25056 Provision of Bus Tickets for Home to School services from Stagecoach"
  }
}