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Transport tenders from UK public buyers

Transport tenders open now: 289. In the 12 months to 22 October 2026, UK public buyers published 4,111 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to HATS Group Limited on 2 Jul 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

Transport tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 4,111 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which transport tenders are open now?

289 notices with a deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, closing soonest first, all matched by text.

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.

Showing 30 of 289. Search every open notice for “Transport”.

Which buyers publish the most transport notices?

Surrey County Council, with 967 notices of 4,111 in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.

  1. Surrey County Council967
  2. East Sussex County Council521
  3. West Northamptonshire Council294
  4. Leicestershire County Council258
  5. The North Yorkshire Council241
  6. Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport150
  7. LONDON BUS SERVICES LIMITED96
  8. Transport for London93

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 4,111 notices in the window, read 22 October 2026.

How many transport notices are published each month?

About 346 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was August 2026, with 957.

352 of the 1251 transport notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (28%). 3 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
Award2,311
Contract1,418
Planning188
Tender179
Tender cancellation13
Pipeline2
Stage as the source records it, of 4,111 notices in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,000265
£25,000 to £100,000352
£100,000 to £500,000405
£500,000 to £2 million109
£2 million or more120
Only the 1,251 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 transport contracts recently?

HATS Group Limited won 2 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 2 Jul 2026, University College London Hospitals NHS FT recorded an award to HATS Group Limited for “UCLH-7264 - Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services”, at a recorded value of £85,200,000.

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

SupplierAward notices won
HATS Group Limited2
4WAY CONSULTING LTD1
A & S SOUTHERN TRANSPORT LTD1
A Star Taxi Crewe1
ARRIVA DURHAM COUNTY1
Argyle Taxis1
Arrivals Star Ltd1
BWB CONSULTING LIMITED1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 200 of 3,729 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 transport tenders here?

Moving people and goods for a buyer, and running its fleets and transport schemes: school and social care transport, public bus services, patient transport, freight and fleet services. Vehicles bought outright are goods, and movement data is digital work.

Classified

The notice’s recorded classification (proposed by a model, each label checked by Jev) accepted this catalogue subject: transport services. Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so none appear here yet.

Matched by text

The title contains one of: transport, bus service, taxi, home to school, passenger, haulage, courier, logistics, patient transport. 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. 289 notices open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. Surrey County Council published 967 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 4,111 in the last 12 months.
  3. HATS Group Limited won 2 awards

    The most of any supplier in the 200 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 346 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 4,111 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many transport tenders are open now?
289 notices with a stated deadline still ahead on 22 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
22 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not yet published to public pages
  • Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so every notice here is matched by text.
  • 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.
  • Live notices published more than 12 months ago are included only when they state a future deadline.
  • Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
  • Winners are read from the newest 200 of 3729 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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