Published date: 17 January 2017

This notice was replaced on 21 March 2017

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 21 March 2017)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Hire of buses and coaches with driver - 60172000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£19,000

Procurement reference

T032

Published date

17 January 2017

Closing date

1 February 2017

Contract start date

1 August 2017

Contract end date

31 July 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

South Cheshire College has a requirement for the provision of scheduled Student Transport services between South Cheshire College and Sandbach (Route SCC18). The contract term is from 01/08/17 to 31/07/17, with service to start in September 2017. The contract includes the option to extend for one further year:

AM Route details are shown below (PM = reverse of inward route):

Pick Up Point
Sandbach, Congleton Road Residential Home @ 08:05
Sandbach Common @ 08:08
Sandbach, Middlewich Road / Park Lane corner @ 08:11
Sandbach, Railway Station @ 08:15
Ettiley Heath, Salt Line Way / Thornbrook Way @ 08:17
Wheelock, Crewe Road / Forge Fields @ 08:20
Winterley, Crewe Road / Kent's Green Lane @ 08:26
Haslington, Broughton Arms @ 08:30
Haslington, Crewe Road / Oakland Avenue @ 08:34
Arrive at South Cheshire College @ 08:45

Return Journey, Coaches to depart South Cheshire College at:

Monday & Wednesday 16:15
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 16:45

Number of Seats: Minimum 53 Seater Required.

Please see the attached Invitation to Tender and other supporting documents for full details of our requirement, and information relating to the tender process.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

Please see the attached Invitation To Tender & supporting documents for further information relating to this tender

Prospective suppliers who have not provided Student Transport Services to South Cheshire College within the last 3 years are asked to provide references. Please provide names and contact details for at least two customers for whom you have supplied a similar service within the last 3 years (by doing so you confirm that you have approached your referees and have confirmed that they will be available during the tender period, and are happy for us to contact them).

NB: If you have provided Student Transport services to South Cheshire College within the last 3 years, or have supplied references to South Cheshire College in relation to a Student Transport tender within the last 3 months, you do not need to submit references for this tender - your reliability will be assessed using either your recorded history of reliability in providing those services to the College, or the references previously provided.

If supplying references, we request that prior to returning your tender submission you provide your referee contact details by email to chris.lovatt@scc.ac.uk, doing so will enable us to obtain references with the minimum of delay during the tender period.

About the buyer

Contact name

Chris Lovatt

Address

South Cheshire College
Dane Bank Avenue
CREWE
CW2 8AB
England

Email

chris.lovatt@scc.ac.uk

Website

http://www.scc.ac.uk