What the buyer wrote
This is not a “sole source” in market terms. This paper recommends direct awards to the two incumbent suppliers, each serving distinct TOC ecosystems. Alternative suppliers exist in the market; however, no alternative supplier has been identified that can currently deliver using the existing Darwin integrations and aggregator relationships without causing incompatibility and disproportionate technical and operational difficulty or requiring substantial redevelopment, due to their embedded position within each TOC and the TOCs’ bus service aggregators.
Bid for this and lost? There is a short window in which the decision can be questioned.
Awarded to
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Bus Replacement Services Ginn Consultants (CGC)
- 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
- 29 Sep 2026
- Work ends
- 29 Sep 2029
- Where
- in London
Who the buyer named
Sunil Chauhan was the named contact on this notice.