Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: Lancashire County Council - NoWcard Concessionary Travel System (Managed Service) (GBP 12,000,000 (gross, incl. VAT))

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 7th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Lancashire County Council. Procurement: NoWcard Concessionary Travel System (Managed Service). Description: NoWcard is a transport smart card pass, most commonly for the elderly or disabled, available for use in Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Lancashire County Council (LCC), Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool administrative areas. It is administered by LCC on behalf of all NoWcard members with the smart card recording journey details and verifies eligibility for the concessionary travel. LCC wish t Category: goods. Value: GBP 12,000,000 (gross, incl. VAT) (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): South West Smart Applications Limited Trading as Smart Applications Management.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 7th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 7th October 2026 · 17:32

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: Leicestershire County Council - Highway Monitoring Services_26 (GBP 3,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.