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Kent County Council

CN270830 - Concessionary Cards and Associated Services Contract

Forecast · PlanningNo open deadline

Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.

01/ The notice

Key facts

Value
£1,800,000Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time)
No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
Published
21 Oct 2026
Region
Not stated

02/ The brief

What the notice says

Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.

Kent County Council is seeking to appoint a supplier to deliver it's Concessionary Cards and Associated Services contract, which includes elements such as:

1. Smart Card Production for Kent Concessionary Travel Schemes

Production of smart, data-encoded bus passes with relevant personalisation and adherence to scheme requirements and national ITSO standards. Approximately 250,000 ENCTS passes are renewed every five years, in addition to new applications and replacements, and are distributed to home addresses. Approximately 27,000 Kent Travel Saver passes are renewed each summer and distributed to schools.

2. Entitled Scholar Pass Production

Production of non-smart bus passes for children entitled to free school transport. Around 5,000 passes are reprinted annually, plus in-year replacements, and are sent to schools and home addresses.

3. Application Portals

Provision of customer-facing application and self-service platforms for ENCTS and Kent Travel Saver, meeting relevant national and KCC IT and data security standards.

4. Customer Management Systems

Scheme and customer management systems for ENCTS and Kent Travel Saver, enabling authorised staff to manage and update customer records and status, and to cancel and reorder passes.

5. ENCTS Administration

Management of customer enquiries and complaints relating to applications and passes; processing new and renewed ENCTS applications submitted online or by post; and assessment of applications and supporting evidence against national eligibility criteria and guidance.

6. HOPS

Smartcard management for Kent Travel Saver and ENCTS, including capture, recording and export of journey data from operator ticket machines and the sending of messages to ticket machines and smartcards, including hot-listing cancelled passes.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:

https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Transport-systems-consultancy-services./2K5525W85D

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/2K5525W85D

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

  • 71311200

04/ History

Releases of this notice

One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 21 Oct 2026
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 21 October 2026.

    Release 099538-2026

    View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)

05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

  • Only one release is held, so there is no change history.

06/ Questions

About this notice

Kent County Council published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £1,800,000.

07/ Related

Where to go next

These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.

Reference
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Source
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Stage
planning · Planning
Last verified
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 07:07 BST
Read at
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 13:16 BST

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