Official UK procurement notice
Cowley International College - Home to School Transport
Authority: Department for Education (Central government)·On behalf of: Cowley International College
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe procurement is to provide the college with a home to school transport service.
CPV: Road transport services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£165,000
- Technical & professional ability
Must hold appropriate PSV Licenses.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality
- Price
- Technical & professional ability
Must hold appropriate PSV Licenses.
- Price carries 65 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6.5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 6 Oct 2025
- Authority reference
005059- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-050922- Latest notice
- Procurement termination notice (UK12)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05452cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 22 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 12 Sept 2025, 11:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
9 Jun 2025 → 1 Nov 2025 · 9 dates- Planning notice published9 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST
- Market engagement30 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
We will be holding a teams event for all interested suppliers which wil be held at 10:00 on 30/06/2025. The teams event will include the business manager from Cowley International College and Richard Huntrods from the Department for Educations Get Help Buying for Schools Team. The purpose of the call will be to provide detail of the opportunity to suppliers and it will also give them chance to ask questions which may be relevant to the procurement. For clarity, DFE's get help buying for schools team wil lbe running the procurement exercise however the contracting authority is Cowley International College.
- Next notice expected1 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published22 Aug 2025, 14:33 BST
- Clarification questions by12 Sept 2025, 11:59 BST
- Submission deadline22 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by387 days ago6 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published366 days ago27 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMT
- Contract starts362 days ago1 Nov 2025
Notice history
9 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Jun 2025- Planned procurement notice published9 Jun 2025, 12:00 BSTUK3
- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Jun 2025, 09:45 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £250,00023 Jun 2025, 09:45 BSTwas £255,000
- Tender notice published22 Aug 2025, 14:33 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £165,00022 Aug 2025, 14:33 BSTwas £250,000
- Status changed to active22 Aug 2025, 14:33 BST
- Deadline moved to 22 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST22 Aug 2025, 14:33 BST+52 days · was 1 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
- Procurement termination notice published27 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMTUK12
- Status changed to complete27 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMT
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-06: 1 release · 9 Jun 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| supplier not published | — | 27 Oct 2025 | CancelledWe received no compliant bids for this tender. |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Cowley International CollegeProcuring entityContracting Authority
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Procurement termination notice Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender