Official UK procurement notice
Middlesbrough Bus Service 29
Authority: Tees Valley Combined Authority (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of Middlesbrough Bus Service 29 - Subsidised bus service (de minimis). Service extension to Cypress Road and Nunthorpe on Mon-Sat daytimes/evenings and Sundays.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- 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
- 12 Jun 2025, 09:06 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Apr 2026, 08:36 BST
- Authority reference
TVCA-PROC-0517- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031693- Latest notice
- Contract termination notice (UK11)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054730Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
ward of De Minimis bus transport subsidy contract in line with the Transport Act and Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004. This service is a daytime and evening extension of a current Arriva route. No other operator could viably provide the necessary connection due to Arriva providing the standard service.
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.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Jun 2025 → 8 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends23 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published202 days ago8 Apr 2026, 08:36 BST
Notice history
5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 Jun 2025- Transparency notice published12 Jun 2025, 09:06 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published12 Jun 2025, 09:11 BSTUK6
- Contract details notice published24 Jun 2025, 12:54 BSTUK7
- Contract signature expected24 Jun 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract termination notice published8 Apr 2026, 08:36 BSTUK11
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-06: 1 release · 12 Jun 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arriva Durham County24 Jun 2025 – 28 Mar 2026 | £202,815 | 11 Mar 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Middlesbrough Bus Service 29 · Arriva Durham County
- Signed
- 24 Jun 2025
- Value
- £202,815
- Period
- 24 Jun 2025 – 28 Mar 2026
- Status
- terminated
- Final value
- £202,815
- Termination
- contractCompleted
No agreed KPIs: Contract value is below £5 million including VAT.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- ARRIVA DURHAM COUNTY LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract termination notice Contract termination 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