Route PL3: London Underground Rail Replacement bus service

About the buyer

London Bus Services Ltd, known as London Buses, is Transport for London's subsidiary responsible for planning and contracting London's bus network, procuring as a local organisation. Individual routes are competitively tendered to private operators, with fifteen to twenty per cent of the network re-let each year. Operators join an approved supplier list before bidding on each Invitation to Tender. Winning bids run as Quality Incentive Contracts lasting up to seven years.

Over the past 5 years, most of London Bus Services Ltd's contract awards have been in transport services, communications equipment and transport equipment.