Award of De Minimis Bus Subsidy Contracts 2025 2026
What the buyer wrote
NOTE: This notice replaces notice identifier reference 2025/S 000-043527 Award of a number of subsidy contracts. These contracts are exempt from the Procurement Act 2023 regulations as they are awarded on a De Minimis basis as provided for under the Transport Act and Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004. Local authorities or Passenger Transport Authorities/Executives with forecast expenditure on bus service subsidies in any one year of £600,000 or more will be able to spend up to 25% of this on de minimis contracts; within this 25% there is no limit on the expenditure in any year with any single operator.
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Award of De Minimis Bus Subsidy Contracts 2025 2026
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Work starts
- 25 Jul 2025
- Work ends
- 16 Mar 2026
- Where
- in the East Midlands
- Kind of work
- Passenger transport services
Who the buyer named
Simon Ip was the named contact on this notice.