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Cornwall College e-Tendering

The Cornwall College Group Student Transport / Bus Tender September 2025

TransportCPV 60000000
Value£7.0m
Awarded7 Mar 2025
Published3 Feb 2025
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£7.0mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£7.6m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Cornwall College Group has a number of campuses throughout Cornwall along with Bicton College in Devon will be seeking suitably qualified supplier(s) to provide Student Transport / Bus Services from September 2025.The routes would be required to run from the start of the autumn term, right through to the end of the summer term; excluding the Christmas and Easter holidays, half-terms and bank holidays.

To ensure the safety of our learners, all vehicles must be PSVAR compliant and all drivers will have an up to date DBS check and agree to complete safeguarding training.

As our service needs to be extremely reliable we would welcome companies who would have a spare bus available, should there be an emergency, and to those who can or are willing to explore the possibility of App based systems for ticketing, traceability and transport being tracked by the end user.

We will also require a designated person of contact, should we need to coordinate routes on a daily basis.

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To ensure the safety of our learners

To ensure the safety of our learners, all vehicles must be PSVAR compliant and all drivers will have an up to date DBS check and agree to complete safeguarding training.

02

As our service needs to be extremely

As our service needs to be extremely reliable we would welcome companies who would have a spare bus available, should there be an emergency, and to those who can or are willing to explore the possibility of App based systems for ticketing, traceability and transport being tracked by the end user.

03

We will also require a designated person

We will also require a designated person of contact, should we need to coordinate routes on a daily basis.

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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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