GSS23951 STFC Taxi Services

UK Research and Innovation - Science and Technology Facilities Council, has a significant need for "bought in" Taxi Journeys for staff, users and visitors across all sites, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire (RAL), Daresbury, Cheshire (DL), Edinburgh (UKATC) and Swindon.

Due to the high level of "User" visits to ISIS and CLF at the RAL Oxfordshire based site, that area has the highest volume requirement, approximately 5500 separate trips (although this number can vary widely.

Particularly, on the running days of the large facilities).

Journeys range for local trips as low as 12 miles up to longer trips, typically to airports, of 50 miles plus.

As well as buying in its taxi services the RAL, Oxfordshire site (exclusively) has a retained Transport Function which employs a small team staff who undertake both goods and passenger transportation.

In advance of the expiry of the current contract, STFC is considering how best to address the succession to the current contract provision.

We now seek to gauge the market response to STFC's requirements so that we can deliver improvements and benefits through new contracted provision.

The Route to Market and the Value of the opportunity are yet to be agreed so this Pre-Market Engagement event seeks to help inform and shape STFC's specification of need.