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Council contracted passenger transport tenders from UK public buyers

Council contracted passenger transport tenders open now: 11. In the 12 months to 23 October 2026, UK public buyers published 1,088 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to GO SOUTH COAST LIMITED on 30 Jun 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

Council contracted passenger transport tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 1,088 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which council contracted passenger transport tenders are open now?

11 notices with a deadline still ahead on 23 October 2026, closing soonest first, all matched by text.

Council contracted passenger transport tenders matched by text

Each title, buyer or stated region matches this hub’s rule. That is a word match, not a judgment of what is bought.

Which buyers publish the most contracted passenger transport for council buyers notices?

East Sussex County Council, with 475 notices of 1,088 in the 12 months to 23 October 2026.

  1. East Sussex County Council475
  2. Leicestershire County Council250
  3. The North Yorkshire Council197
  4. East Riding of Yorkshire Council19
  5. Lincolnshire County Council17
  6. North Lincolnshire Council9
  7. Hertfordshire County Council7
  8. West Sussex County Council7

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 1,088 notices in the window, read 23 October 2026.

How many contracted passenger transport for council buyers notices are published each month?

About 93 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was July 2026, with 252.

132 of the 506 contracted passenger transport for council buyers notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (26%). 0 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Contract763
Award284
Tender20
Planning16
Tender cancellation3
Pipeline2
Stage as the source records it, of 1,088 notices in the 12 months to 23 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,000196
£25,000 to £100,000132
£100,000 to £500,000156
£500,000 to £2 million9
£2 million or more13
Only the 506 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won contracted passenger transport for council buyers contracts recently?

A & S SOUTHERN TRANSPORT LTD won 1 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 30 Jun 2026, Isle of Wight Council recorded an award to GO SOUTH COAST LIMITED for “Home to School Transport Bus and Coach Services on the Isle of Wight (2026)”, at a recorded value of £10,534,704.

Read the award notice. Legacy award record; supplier allocation and signed-contract status unverified

SupplierAward notices won
A & S SOUTHERN TRANSPORT LTD1
Brylaine1
GO SOUTH COAST LIMITED1
HATS Group Ltd1
Merton Community Transport1
W. H. Fowler & Sons (Coaches) Ltd1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 200 of 1,047 award and contract notices in the window. From the legacy award table, which ends on 23 July 2026. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as council contracted passenger transport tenders here?

Contracted passenger transport tenders published by council buyers: the same title rule as the UK-wide contracted passenger transport hub, kept to notices whose buyer the council tenders hub recognises by name. Notices from other buyers with the same subject are on the contracted passenger transport hub; the council hub lists every subject.

Classified

This hub is chosen by buyer or place, which the catalogue does not describe, so it uses no classification.

Matched by text

The buyer's name contains one of: contracted passenger transport, school transport, home to school transport, taxi, council, combined authority, borough of, city of [a-z]+ council. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

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  1. 11 notices open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. East Sussex County Council published 475 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 1,088 in the last 12 months.
  3. A & S SOUTHERN TRANSPORT LTD won 1 award

    The most of any supplier in the 200 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 93 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 1,088 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many council contracted passenger transport tenders are open now?
11 notices with a stated deadline still ahead on 23 October 2026, all matched by text. The list is read again every day.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
23 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
23 October 2025 to 23 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not used for this hub
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
  • Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
  • Winners are read from the newest 200 of 1047 award and contract notices in the window.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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