Procurement

TVCA-PROC-0772 - Extension to Bus Service 10

  • Tees Valley Combined Authority

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0666ac

Description

Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA)(the 'Contracting Authority'), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group, are looking to award a contract for the provision of extension to bus service 10. 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.

This contract is to be awarded to Arriva since they are the commercial operator of Bus Service 10. This service is a daytime extension of a current Arriva route to provide connectivity to Sadberge and

surrounding villages as a mitigation of Tees Flex being withdrawn.

Notices

UK5: Transparency notice

Notice identifier
2026/S 000-021487
Published
10 March 2026, 4:24pm