School Transport Contracts and Tenders

Taxi, minibus and PCV (passenger-carrying vehicle) contracts that move pupils, most often mainstream scholars on standard routes and children with SEN or disabilities on dedicated or shared transport. Buyers are almost always county councils and combined authorities rather than individual schools, and a single contract often covers several routes rather than one.

Through standing frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems (DPS) rather than one-off tenders. A council sets up the DPS once, then runs a mini-competition among approved operators every time a new route or school year needs covering, so the same authority can publish dozens of small award notices across a single academic year.

60130000 (Special-purpose road passenger-transport services) is the code that maps most directly onto home-to-school routes. 60000000 (Transport services, excluding waste transport) appears on a wider set of notices, including some that bundle school routes with other council transport needs.

Contracts Finder, Find a Tender and council e-procurement portals such as ProContract, alongside 100+ portals Stotles indexes across the UK and Ireland. Stotles pulls all of it into one search rather than requiring a supplier to check each portal separately.

Platform-wide, 2,147 tenders are open across all sectors, with 2 new notices added in the last seven days. Home-to-school transport is a small, framework-heavy slice of that total rather than a high-volume category on its own.