WP3279m Route Contracts Mini Competition January 2025 - AWARD

Description

1.1 The Council wishes to procure various Route Contracts for the Provision of Home to 
      School Passenger Transport Services for children with special educational needs. 
      1.2 There are 17 (seventeen) Route Contracts (please see Appendix A for a list of Route
      details).
      1.3 Each Contract is for the undertaking of a single transport route to and from a school 
      or other specified premises (the "Premises"). This type of call-of contract is called a 
      "Route Contract" in the Framework Agreement between the Council and the Bidder 
      and will typically involve the deployment of a single vehicle to undertake a single route 
      to and from the Premises to transport SEN pupils. 
      1.4 The commencement date for the Routes Contracts is 1st January 2025, for an initial 
      24-month period. From 1st January 2027 there will be an option to extend each Route 
      Contract by up to 12-months.
      1.5 This Mini Competition has been issued via the Council's e-procurement portal, in-tend 
      under the Passenger Transport Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) in connection with 
      a competitive procurement. This procurement exercise is to be conducted in 
      accordance with the Council's Contract Rules and the Public Contracts Regulations 
      2015. The purpose of the Mini Competition is to invite you to make a submission for 
      the Contract/s and for no other purpose.