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Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats) - Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats)

Awarded United Kingdom Transport services

Buyer East Sussex County Council

Key facts

Awarded
Procedure
Restricted procedure
  1. Published Deadline Awarded
  2. Contract ends July 2029
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Awarded to

Southern Travel Solutions Ltd

Award date
Back on the market
Jul 2029 How we know

Our verdict, graded

On 6 Oct 2026, while the notice was open, we called it: Open race. The recent leader won again.

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When this contract comes back

This contract runs about 34 months, so it is back on the market around July 2029.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

East Sussex County Council awarded a contract for school transport services. The contract covered a saloon vehicle with 1 to 8 passenger seats, operating on a fixed route from TN37 7TH to Mount Camphill, TN5 6PT. The service ran Monday to Friday during school time from 09:00 to 16:30, and no passenger assistant was required. The operator needed large boot space to transport a walker daily or a folding wheelchair if needed. The contract was awarded to Southern Travel Solutions Ltd, with the award date recorded as 2026-10-08. The status of the procurement was recorded as contract awarded.

Key points

Vehicle type: Saloon Passenger Assistant Required: No Proposed Taxi Route: From: TN37 7TH To: Mount Camphill, TN5 6PT Frequency: Monday to Friday Daily School Time: Mon- Fri 09:00-16:30 Comments for Operator: Large boot space required to transport walker daily or folding wheelchair if needed. This opportunity has been distributed on SProc.net
Original text
Vehicle type: Saloon Passenger Assistant Required: No Proposed Taxi Route: From: TN37 7TH To: Mount Camphill, TN5 6PT Frequency: Monday to Friday Daily School Time: Mon- Fri 09:00-16:30 Comments for Operator: Large boot space required to transport walker daily or folding wheelchair if needed. This opportunity has been distributed on SProc.net

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 739 awards for Transport services in United Kingdom.

Median award
€33,767
Middle half of past awards
€19,787 to €66,914

Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

East Sussex County Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
119
awards
109
awarded in total
€318,410

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
66
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
19%
of its calls state an estimated value
8%

Based on 108 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Awards most often to

  1. Southern Travel Solutions Ltd 8 awards
  2. Brighton Taxi Company 7 awards
  3. Sussex Cars Association 5 awards

3 open tenders right now

Market context

open now in Transport services
1,882
median open notice
€536,779

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Transport services

different companies won awards here
448
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
78

Based on 1,353 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Competition

tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
9.8
of those lots received a single tender
0%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
0%
of the tenders came from another country
0%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

Change history

Every time an official source republished this notice with different content. We watch every source we index, including regional copies of the same notice.

  1. Status
    Was: Closed
    Now: Awarded
    Award date
    not stated
    Now: October 7, 2026
    Winner
    not stated
    Now: Southern Travel Solutions Ltd

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