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Nottingham City Council

CPU 1539 Schoollink Bus Services A1 and A2

Transport EquipmentCPV 34000000 60000000
Value£323k
Awarded10 May 2015
Published1 Jul 2015
RegionEast Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£323ktotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Transport Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Tenders are invited for the supply of services in respect of Schoollink bus services A1 and A2.

These services run on weekdays in school term time only.

Each service operates once in the morning and once in the afternoon for the primary purpose of carrying school children on a set route between their residential areas and several schools within the city.

Although these bus services will primarily be for the benefit of school children, other members of the general public will be entitled to use them given that these services shall need to be registered with the Traffic Commissioner.

Service A2 requires two vehicles in tandem in order to provide the necessary capacity, but both vehicles on that service run at the same time.

Only one vehicle is needed for service A1.

Tenderers must tender for both services combined and not for only one service or the other.

The supplier must provide their own diesel powered double deck vehicles, each with minimum 75 seating capacity, (three in total) for these bus services and garage these on their own premises.

The tenderer must submit a cost for operating these services under a Minimum Subsidy based contract, according to the Council Specification at Part 5.

The fare revenue collected from the service shall be retained by the supplier, whilst the supplier shall submit invoices to the Council every four weeks for the net cost of operating these services.

The successful supplier will be responsible for providing this service, liaising closely with the Council's Contract Manager The Council's detailed requirements are defined in the Specification

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Tenders are invited for the supply

Tenders are invited for the supply of services in respect of Schoollink bus services A1 and A2.

02

Although these bus services will primarily

Although these bus services will primarily be for the benefit of school children, other members of the general public will be entitled to use them given that these services shall need to be registered with the Traffic Commissioner.

03

Service A2 requires two vehicles in tandem

Service A2 requires two vehicles in tandem in order to provide the necessary capacity, but both vehicles on that service run at the same time.

04

Tenderers must tender for both services combined

Tenderers must tender for both services combined and not for only one service or the other.

05

The supplier must provide their own diesel

The supplier must provide their own diesel powered double deck vehicles, each with minimum 75 seating capacity, (three in total) for these bus services and garage these on their own premises.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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