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Cheshire East Borough Council

Local Bus Tender phase 2017

TransportCPV 60000000
Value£600k
Deadline
Published13 Nov 2017
RegionNorth West
Contract value in context
£600ktotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The local bus network in Cheshire East is a mixture of: Supported Services which are subsidised by the Council and operated on our behalf: and Commercial Bus Services which are run by private operators who have full control over how, where and when bus services are run.

Operators are required to provide a service on various timetables across East of Cheshire and surrounding areas.

Detailed information of routes, days of operation, whether wheelchair accessible vehicles are required will be detailed in the tender documentation.

Transport Service Solutions (TSS herein), gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes or as to the value of the work during the contract period.

Possible variations to lots - Should this occur, updated information will be provided via The Chest website.

TSS may exercise an option to extend the contract of a period of up to 24 months in total.

The successful operator(s) will need to complete contract documentation prior to the contract start date TSS reserves the right not to award any of the published lots.

Transport Service Solutions (TSS) is a wholly owned company of Cheshire East Council.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Operators are required to provide a service

Operators are required to provide a service on various timetables across East of Cheshire and surrounding areas.

02

Should this occur, updated information will

Should this occur, updated information will be provided via The Chest website.

03

The successful operator(s) will need to complete

The successful operator(s) will need to complete contract documentation prior to the contract start date TSS reserves the right not to award any of the published lots.

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

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Source & provenance
OCID
36f23b05-6d03-4e56-9142-d7fb604678e6
Stage
pipeline · Closed
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
CHEAST001-DN307694-62800934
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