# Try-Before-You-Buy Hackney Carriage Rental Service

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Oxford City Council](/buyers/oxford-city-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Electric Blue Ltd
- Award value: £188,000
- Tender value: £188,000
- Award date: 16 September 2019
- Published: 16 September 2019
- Contract start: 23 September 2019
- Contract end: 31 March 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: f64d5dba-e7d4-4a50-93c3-d6360ec589f2-314064
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-405b6c91-b6cb-46ed-ae14-53012adfd926

## Description

As part of Oxford City Council's \(OCC\) journey to zero emissions and zero carbon, OCC is a bid partner of a multi-million pound prototype project called the Energy Superhub Oxford, which has successfully secured £10\.26m R&D funding from Innovate UK\. A proportion of the funding has been earmarked to provide a 'Try-before-you-buy' scheme to support the Ultra Low Emission Vehicle \(ULEV\) transition of the local taxi fleet\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f64d5dba-e7d4-4a50-93c3-d6360ec589f2-314064)