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Sen transport contracts

UK public sector · 2,255 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
2,255
Last 12 months
Median contract
£84k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£2.3bn
1,954 of 2,252 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
39
Suppliers
527

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most sen transport contracts took 13% of them (299 of 2,255).
  • The median contract, £84k, is 17% below the median across transport & logistics contracts (£101k).
  • South East had the most contracts: 673, or 30% of the total.

Who buys sen transport

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Surrey County Council1,029 contracts
  2. 2Suffolk County Council312 contracts
  3. 3London Borough of Merton188 contracts
  4. 4East Sussex County Council161 contracts
  5. 5West Northamptonshire Council107 contracts
  6. 6Leicestershire County Council98 contracts
  7. 7Wokingham Borough Council71 contracts
  8. 8West Sussex County Council60 contracts
  9. 9Derbyshire County Council37 contracts
  10. 10Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council35 contracts

Top sen transport contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1STL70 contracts
  2. 224x7 Group67 contracts
  3. 3XPERT CARS59 contracts
  4. 4Courtesy Cars Redhill55 contracts
  5. 5Nivo Mobility48 contracts
  6. 6Cascade Cars40 contracts
  7. 7ANGEL CARS (WOKING) LTD38 contracts
  8. 8County Cars37 contracts
  9. 9Universal Cabs Ltd37 contracts
  10. 10Nice Travel Solutions Limited37 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

266Q4 2025*199Q1 2026237Q2 20261,525Q3 202628Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 2,227 · Scotland 26 · Wales 2

South East673West Midlands436East of England285London172East Midlands134Yorkshire and The Humber36North West22Scotland9North East3South West3Wales2UK-wide or not stated480

What is included

Taxi, MPV, minibus and wheelchair accessible vehicle transport for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, additional support needs, or placements in PRUs and alternative provision, to schools, colleges and specialist placements, usually with passenger assistants and bought as individual routes through a council DPS.

  • SEND and SEN route call-offs from council transport DPSs
  • Additional support needs (ASN) school taxi contracts
  • Pupil referral unit and alternative provision routes
  • Wheelchair accessible vehicle routes for pupils and students
  • Routes and lots supplied 'with passenger assistant' or 'with escort'
  • Out-of-county specialist placement routes
  • Specialist college journeys for disabled students

What is not included

  • Mainstream pupil routes with no stated need (trn.assist.mainstream-home-to-school-transport)
  • Adults and children's social care journeys to day services, respite or contact (trn.assist.social-care-transport)
  • Passenger assistants bought as a separate line or lot (trn.assist.passenger-assistant-provision)
  • Route lots with no client group stated (trn.assist.passenger-transport-unspecified)
  • Independent travel training (edu.pupil.independent-travel-training)
  • Passenger assistant and driver training such as PATS and MiDAS (edu.tech.lgv-pcv-and-driver-cpc-training)
  • Secure transport of young people (sec.custody.secure-patient-transport)

Often bought by the same buyers