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Bus Franchising - Procurement & Commercial Services Support - Contract Award Notice

West Midlands Combined Authority · published 7 Nov 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release ID18948031-2ef8-4c54-bc8a-a453ee676443-871261
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6101f1cf-59ba-495b-bd4f-e9c9dde54b9a
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-68457
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£1,125,000
award field
Tender value
£1,500,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79418000
Procurement consultancy services
Delivery
West Midlands, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Contract Award Notice to publish the award of a contract for the provision of Procurement and Commercial support services in relation to the West Midlands Bus Franchising Programme. The contract is a call-off contract from the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Management Consultancy Framework 4 (MCF4). The contract duration is for a period of 17 months, with an expiry date of 31/03/2027, and 2 x 12-month options to extend to a final, potential expiry of 31/03/2029.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release7 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published29 Sept 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published27 Oct 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 7 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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