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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

Review of Implementation Pathways for Bus Franchising Scheme

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71311200
Value£100k
Awarded17 Sept 2025
Published14 Oct 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Further Competition Invitation relates to the Further Competition to award a Lump Sum Contract to a Supplier with option to extend the contract based on costs within a pricing table.

Provide consultancy services for an independently-chaired review commissioned to ascertain the best implementation pathways to bus franchising for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority following the election of Mayor Paul Bristow.

This review will provide an independent expert-led assessment of feasible delivery options for implementing franchising, grounded in an understanding of the updated policy environment, revenue landscape, bus network planning principles and intermodal integration opportunities.

The review will commence in September 2025 and is aimed to be largely completed within three months of supplier contracts being signed, with the fourth month used for clarifications and support to the independent Chair and CPCA officers.

This Further Competition Invitation contains the information and instructions the Potential Provider needs to submit a Tender.

The initial Contract will be for a period of 4 months and will include an option for the Contract to be extend by up to a further 1 year and 8 months making a total, maximum duration of 2 years.

This Further Competition is being conducted under the CCS Transport Technology and Associated Services Framework Agreement (reference RM6099) - Lot 1.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Provide consultancy services for an independently-chaired review

Provide consultancy services for an independently-chaired review commissioned to ascertain the best implementation pathways to bus franchising for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority following the election of Mayor Paul Bristow.

02

This review will provide an independent expert-led

This review will provide an independent expert-led assessment of feasible delivery options for implementing franchising, grounded in an understanding of the updated policy environment, revenue landscape, bus network planning principles and intermodal integration opportunities.

03

The review will commence in September 2025

The review will commence in September 2025 and is aimed to be largely completed within three months of supplier contracts being signed, with the fourth month used for clarifications and support to the independent Chair and CPCA officers.

04

This Further Competition Invitation contains the information

This Further Competition Invitation contains the information and instructions the Potential Provider needs to submit a Tender.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This Further Competition is being conducted under the CCS Transport Technology and Associated Services Framework Agreement (reference RM6099) - Lot 1.
Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
This Further Competition is being conducted under the CCS Transport Technology and Associated Services Framework Agreement (reference RM6099) - Lot 1.

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Source & provenance
OCID
9e8f01d6-5122-41b5-bd7f-060986e909b6
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CPCA001-DN784541-77362435
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