Estimate 1
£1,650,000
VAT basis unknown. No amounts are added together or allocated to individual suppliers. This is not a payment.
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 notice
Provision of New Routes as part of the Bus Service Improvement Plan
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
- Latest stage
- award
- Latest notice
- 13 Mar 2025
- Stated contract period
- 18 Sept 2024 to 31 Oct 2027
- Award period
- 4 May 2025 to 31 Oct 2027
- OCID
- ocds-b5fd17-91e7c15a-824f-4a35-903b-41578d30dc54
- Procurement method
- open
Held original notices: Contracts Finder to 9 November 2026. Find a Tender originals run from 24 February 2025 through 10 November 2026 exclusive, including the L1 gap package from 17 August 2026, with supplementary packages for part of 16 to 23 August 2026. The official notice may have changed. Check Contracts Finder search if it cannot be opened.
Which stages have a stated date?
4 of the six stages have a date on the held notices. A gap means no held notice states that date; it does not mean the stage did not happen.
- Planning noticeNo planning notice is held.
- Tender noticeNo tender notice is held.
- Tender deadline
- Award date
- Contract start
- Contract end
Source: held original Contracts Finder notices 159dfd07-b618-4b0f-8884-d6ec479c3f28-833729, read offline: stage notices, tender period, awards and the stated contract period.
What the held notices state
- Tender deadline
- 2 Sept 2024
- Process status
- Complete
- Regime
- Not stated on the held notice
- Procurement method
- Open procedure
- Stated reason for the method
- Not stated on the held notice
- Number of bids
- Not stated on the held notice
- Above the procurement threshold
- Not stated on the held notice
- Framework agreement
- Not stated on the held notice
- Marked suitable for small firms
- Yes
Awards
Award. Status: Active. Award date: 12 Mar 2025.
- Travel Assist Services Ltd: Small or medium enterprise
- Vision Bus Ltd: Small or medium enterprise
Suppliers named together on one award are joint. No share is stated.
Lots
Not stated on the held notice: no lot is listed.
Options and renewal
Not stated on the held notice.
Source: held original Contracts Finder notices 159dfd07-b618-4b0f-8884-d6ec479c3f28-833729, read offline. Each field shows what the latest held notice stating it says. Not stated means no held notice for this process states it. A size is shown only where the notice states it for that supplier.
Contract period
The bar is the stated lot or tender contract period. The mark, where it falls inside the period, is the export build date of 10 November 2026. Option and renewal wording is shown above where a held notice states it.
Also published on
Same buyer and title within seven days. These remain separate procurement processes.
Notice description
As part of the Government's commitment to it's National Bus Strategy, additional BSIP funding has been secured for the Council to put in place 2 new bus routes in the borough. This procurement will be divided into two lots. \r \r Lot 1: Service linking sheltered accommodation\r Lot 2: Radial Services\r
Contact removal rule: contacts/1.
Separate stated values
Award amount 2
£3,000,000
VAT basis unknown. No amounts are added together or allocated to individual suppliers. This is not a payment.
No ceiling or maximum amount is in this export. The official notice is the place to read one.
Held stage events
- : award
Dates are the publication dates of the held stage notices. This is not a complete release history. The tender deadline is shown above where a held notice states it.
Suppliers
- Travel Assist Services Ltd
Published legal identifier not available - Vision Bus Ltd
Published legal identifier not available
These names are joint. No share is stated.
This list gathers every supplier named on any held award. Each award and its suppliers are shown above. Names without an organisation identity remain withheld pending review.
Categories
Sources
2025/03/13.csv.gz
- Publisher
- Cabinet Office
- SHA256
- 73284c0ad27f55640f38d368bdc16a723b453ccefad4654f7c75b963287bf0c5
- Licence
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Retrieved
- Original retrieval time not recorded
What this export cannot show
Award values are not linked to a named supplier, and no ceiling or maximum amount is shown. Those facts stay on the official notice when the notice publishes them. A tender deadline, award dates, supplier sizes, lots, and option or renewal wording appear on contract pages only where a held notice states them. A held process counts as last at tender or planning only when that is the latest stage among the held releases. Where more than one supplier is named, the names are joint and no share is stated.