PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of Consultancy for Strategic and Operational Delivery of £3 National Bus Fare Cap

DfTc - Department for Transport · published 26 Sept 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.

Contracts Finder release ID24ffe942-18d5-4bb8-83ff-696b96385f76-865794
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-1ceeed72-c607-4e9e-9b50-f52459935671
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-167286
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£3,000,000
award field
Tender value
£3,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
60112000
Public road transport services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Following the announcement in the June 2025 Spending Review, the Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Transport confirmed that the £3 National Bus Fare Cap Scheme (£3 NBFC), which had been scheduled to end in December 2025, will now be extended until 31 March 2027.This discretionary scheme, which has been in place since 2023, supports affordable travel by capping single bus fares outside London and has been a key element of the Government's post-pandemic bus policy to support local services. This contract will support the strategic and operational delivery of the £3 NBFC scheme and in preparing an eventual exit strategy from the scheme. VAT Unknown.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release26 Sept 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published21 Aug 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published21 Sept 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Dec 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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ERNST & YOUNG LLP

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 26 Sept 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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