Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Liverpool City Region Combined Authority · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Ribble Motor Services Limited
- Value
- £207,144,966
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Sector
- Transport services · Transport services (excl. Waste transport) (CPV 60000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 014464-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Jan 2026
- Published17 Feb 2026Published 27 days after the contract date
Description
On 25 April 2023, LCRCA published an Assessment on Bus Franchising in the Liverpool City Region which sets out the proposed bus Franchising Scheme in accordance with the Transport Act. In October 2023, the Liverpool City Region Mayor made a Franchising Scheme covering the Liverpool City Region. Franchising is to be introduced over a number of tranches of procurement. Franchised contracts will be let in two categories: i. Category 1 franchises, which are those Franchise Agreements involving multiple services that will operate from a depot provided by LCRCA. LCRCA will provide the depot from which the services relating to the Category 1 franchise must be operated. LCRCA will predominately provide the fleet that must be used on the Category 1 franchise. ii. Category 2 franchises, which are those Franchise Agreements which either i) provide services to serve schools or ii) provide other local services. In both cases the franchises will be delivered from an operator's own depot. This notic…
About the supplier
Ribble Motor Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03990677).