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Milton Keynes City Council

Demand Responsive Transport Service - AWARD

TransportCPV 60112000 63710000 72268000 60120000 60100000 72260000 60000000
Value£5.4m
Deadline20 Jan 2025
Published8 Apr 2025
RegionUK-wide
Timeline
Published 8 Apr 2025ClosedCloses 20 Jan 2025
Contract value in context
£5.4mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£5.8m

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

Milton Keynes City Council are currently out to tender for the provision of Demand Responsive Transport Service.

This procurement is being run via further competition under MKCC CU2688 Local Bus and Shared Taxi & Demand Responsive Services DPS Lot 2 Shared Taxi and Demand responsive service.

A contract for the operation and the software to run a Demand Responsive Transport service within the parameters laid out by the Council.

The service will use a mobile app provided by the successful tenderer as well as web and phone options to interface with the same system for customers.

Calls will be booked at the time of travel, not in advance.

The successful tenderer will supply all vehicles and drivers.

This is a minimum subsidy contract with the successful tenderer retaining fare box income and taking the revenue risk.

Service users will be directed to a commercial bus route where viable.

Further information about the Council's requirement is set out in Specification.

You have been invited directly to take part in this process and have been given full access to the tender documentation available within this e-tendering system.

Please review the documentation and upload the required documents as part of your submission.

Deadline for submissions of the tender will be 12 noon; 20 January 2025.

Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted.

Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The successful tenderer will supply all vehicles

The successful tenderer will supply all vehicles and drivers.

02

Any questions relating to this tender should

Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website.

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

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
IT-480-653-2024-242 - AWARD
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