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Tees Valley Combined Authority

TVCA-PROC-0952 - Connected and Autonomous Mobility (CAM) Technology Partner

Forecast · PlanningNo open deadline

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

01/ The notice

Key facts

Value
£15,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time)
No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
Published
12 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.

Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) seeks to engage the market through this Pre-Tender Market Engagement (PTME) exercise to inform the potential procurement of a supplier to provide a Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) technology solution for the introduction of autonomous buses in the Tees Valley.

For the purposes of this PTME, Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) refers to transport technologies that enable vehicles to operate with automated driving capability and to interact with supporting digital, operational and infrastructure systems.

Through this PTME, the Contracting Authority aims to:

•Understand the market’s appetite to be involved in the potential future procurement exercise;

•Validate the supplier's proposal;

•Understand the capacity of the market and timescales for delivery

•Potential risks associated with the procurement

•Understand opportunities, costs and considerations

•Provide potential suppliers with an opportunity to raise queries and points of consideration in advance of any potential procurement exercise.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Tees Valley portal at: https://teesvalley.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-Darlington:-Specialist-vehicles./J2BY2F6XG4

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://teesvalley.delta-esourcing.com/respond/J2BY2F6XG4

If you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.

03/ Classification

CPV codes

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

  • 34114000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 12 Oct 2026
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 12 October 2026.

    Release 096053-2026

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  2. 12 Oct 2026
    Planning notice update

    Planning notice update published 12 October 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Release 096068-2026

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

05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

  • None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.

06/ Questions

About this notice

Tees Valley Combined Authority published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £15,000,000.

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
ocds-h6vhtk-078595
Source
Find a Tender
Stage
planning · Planning
Last verified
Mon 12 Oct 2026, 20:21 BST
Read at
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 02:30 BST

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