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CN270830 - Concessionary Cards and Associated Services Contract
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.
- 21 Oct 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 21 October 2026.
Release 099538-2026
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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
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-078cfa
- Source
- Find a Tender
- 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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