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Milton Keynes Council

Demand Responsive Transport Network

TransportCPV 60100000
Value£5.0m
Awarded1 Jan 2021
Published19 Mar 2021
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£5.0mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£5.4m

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.

The brief

Award of contract after further competition under CU2688 Local Bus Service DPS - Lot 2 Shared Taxi and Demand Responsive Service.

Contract awarded for a period of 3 years with an option to extend by 12 months for further two years.

The Council has taken the decision to move most of its subsidised network to demand responsive transport.

The contract is for the operation and the software to run a full 'corner to corner' DRT service within the parameters laid out by the Council.

The service will integrate rather than compete with the commercial local bus network.Within scope are the possible adaptation of the service to hub and spoke or transfer based if patronage grows significantly.

The entire borough of Milton Keynes, including rural areas and new developments that may begin during the contract period are within scope.

Cross Boundary trips are not within scope.

Key requirements

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The service will integrate rather than compete

The service will integrate rather than compete with the commercial local bus network.Within scope are the possible adaptation of the service to hub and spoke or transfer based if patronage grows significantly.

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