Award of De Minimis Contract - Kinchbus Service 2 Loughborough - Sileby
What the buyer wrote
Award of De Minimis contract to Kinchbus for continuation of Service 2 Loughborough to Sileby. 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 Contract - Kinchbus Service 2 Loughborough - Sileby
- 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
- 8 Aug 2025
- Work ends
- 31 Jul 2026
- Where
- in the East Midlands
- Kind of work
- Passenger transport services
Who the buyer named
Barbara Hunter was the named contact on this notice.