Published date: 14 February 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 27 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Passenger cars - 34110000

  • Transport services (excl. Waste transport) - 60000000

  • Taxi services - 60120000

    • Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver - 60170000

Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

PQ0151

Published date

14 February 2017

Closing date

27 February 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Council spends c. £2m per annum on transport services, predominately regular route work conveying children to and from school and adults to and from day centres with a small amount (c£50 -100k pa) of ad-hoc taxi journeys for Council Officers / elected members. These services are provided under an existing contract (T23) that will expire in the Summer of 2018. A new strategy for delivery of the service from Sept 2018 is currently being developed.

As an interim measure and to supplement supply under the existing T23 contract, Birmingham City Council is seeking applications, from suitable organisations, to provide hackney carriage taxi services throughout Birmingham. The orders placed under this interim contract will predominantly be for ad-hoc taxi requests for Council Officers / elected members and will include requests for pickups at peak times. A recent audit of pick-ups for one month and for one department showed that of 183 pick-ups 68 of these were peak time journeys, 63 jobs had a travelling distance of less than 3 miles with the remaining jobs (120) being for between 3 and 14 miles.

Although this interim contract will predominantly cover ad-hoc tax requests, where existing contracted providers under the T23 contract cannot fulfil these, where there is a requirement for conveying children to and from school or adults to and from day centres and this cannot be fulfilled under the existing T23 contract these routes may also be ordered under this interim contract.

Interested organisations must have a proven track record in the operation of similar operations and demonstrate that they are able to provide a consistently high quality service, which represents good value for money.

The term of this contract will be 17 months and will commence on or around 1st April 2017 to 31st August 2018 subject to satisfactory performance

If you are interested in applying please click the following link to access the Council's tender Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc. You will need to register your organisation on In-tend and express an interest in this contract. All organisations expressing an interest will be forwarded a quotation template to complete and return.

Quotations must be completed in full and returned no later than 12.00 (GMT) on Monday 27th February 2017.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Andrea Webster (tel: 07827 367138 or email Andrea.webster@birmingham.gov.uk).

Please quote contract reference PQ0151 on all correspondence

More information

Links

Additional text

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Andrea Webster

Address

10 Woodcock Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7WB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 464 4726

Email

andrea.webster@birmingham.gov.uk