PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Contract B24105 Bus Service 5

East Sussex County Council · published 20 Apr 2026. 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 ID36515378-e845-41b8-b4d2-3a943fe6d4a4-893461
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-1beb1628-88c9-4792-a121-96eafcabc735
Buyer identifierGB-LAE-ESX
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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

Award value
£85,880
award field
Tender value
£85,880
tender field
Procurement method
Single tender action (below threshold)
Category
services
CPV
34121100
Public-service buses
Delivery
South East, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Direct Award (De minimis arrangement) of short term Council funded bus service contract to approved DPS operator. Value stated includes extension periods (2 years). End date stated is end of initial term.

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 release20 Apr 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published4 Jan 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2024
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published22 Apr 2028
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

EAST KENT ROAD CAR COMPANY, LIMITED

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 20 Apr 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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