Bus Services Framework
- Buyer
- Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus
- Value
- £200,000,000
- Closes
- 30 October 2026
- Where
- Newcastle upon Tyne, the North East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Nexus (Tyne and Wear transport authority) is setting up a framework agreement to buy bus and passenger transport services over five years, worth up to £200 million. They want to consolidate multiple separate contracts into one flexible framework covering local bus routes, school transport, taxis, demand-responsive services, Metro replacement buses, and emergency cover.
What the buyer wants
• Operate secured local bus services on individual routes or route packages across Tyne and Wear • Provide dedicated school, college, and works transport services including home-to-school contracts • Run fixed-route Taxibus services using smaller vehicles (taxis, minibuses, MPVs) as registered local buses • Deliver demand-responsive and community transport including rural feeder services and flexible options • Supply planned and emergency replacement buses during Metro and Ferry disruptions or engineering works • Provide seasonal, special events, and partner-funded transport services as needed
Lots
- Secured Local Bus Services
- Schools and Works Transport Services
- Taxibus Services
- Demand Responsive, Community and Flexible Transport Services
- Metro and Ferry Replacement Services
- Special Events, Seasonal and Partner-Funded Services
- Emergency Bus Services
- Partner Organisation Access Lot
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a very large framework (£200 million over five years) designed for established bus operators with existing fleets, staff, and statutory operating licences. Most small independent traders without a bus operator's licence, substantial vehicle fleet, and trained bus driver workforce will not be eligible, though smaller operators holding a valid PSV licence may bid for specific lots like Taxibus or demand-responsive services.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
More open tenders from Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus
- NEX26/29- Metro Go Technical Services Contract, Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus, £8,000,000, closes 29 January 2027
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