(Today, 6:41 am)Superman wrote Full award results at this link: 

https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/N...61320-2026

Some interesting new services coming by the looks of it, although quite a few with only 1 bidder.

"Full award results" does not seem to include the actual contract price. Does that become known at a later stage in the process? (I'm pretty sure the "contract value" stated in the info given so far is just the price that had been estimated by TV, which is relevant in affecting the procedures that must be followed.)

Most attracted bids from 2 big firms, with an unknown SME unsuccessfully bidding for a handful on Teesside. Presumably the big 2 will be all be Arriva and Stagecoach; I wonder why Arriva did not bid for all of them? Services 1&2 seem just as operationally feasible for them as they are for Stagecoach. Stagecoach did not bid for the Darlington 16/17/18.

The contract values suggest they are min cost contracts. The passenger revenue on some of them will be fairly sobering - I doubt if there are really all that many potential bus users in School Aycliffe ...