London Bus Tenders and Contracts

Search London bus tenders and awarded contracts by keyword, buyer or contract status on Stotles, then track individual notices as they move from pre-tender through award. Filtering on bus-specific terms surfaces route contracts, garage and depot work, driver services and vehicle technology such as iBus, rather than the wider TfL portfolio of rail, tram and river services.

TfL tenders bus route operating contracts to private bus companies, alongside separate contracts for garages and depots, driver medicals and welfare facilities, traffic signal and bus priority schemes, and the technology that runs the network day to day. iBus, the automatic vehicle location and real-time information system, and the Future Bus Systems programme that is replacing it are recurring examples in the corpus.

No. London Underground and London Overground run their own separate procurement, covering track, trains, stations and rail-specific systems, and those notices sit outside this page. It tracks bus-specific tenders and contracts only, routes, garages, driver services and bus technology such as iBus, even though the same buyer, Transport for London, publishes all three.

iBus is TfL's automatic vehicle location system for the London bus network and trams, combining on-vehicle equipment with a back-office and performance management system. According to TfL board minutes, the original iBus contract was awarded in 2005 for a 10-year term and was extended in 2015 and again in 2022 to keep services running while a replacement, procured under the Future Bus Systems programme, is put in place.

London bus notices are most often classified under CPV 60112000 (public road transport services), 34121100 (public-service buses) and 50113200 (bus maintenance services). These codes are useful for checking a notice's scope, but this page does not filter by CPV code, since plenty of on-intent bus notices carry no code or a neighbouring one.