Published date: 28 June 2019

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: 26 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Engineering-related scientific and technical services - 71350000

  • Construction consultancy services - 71530000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

MERTVL001-DN415013-19513577

Published date

28 June 2019

Closing date

26 July 2019

Contract start date

2 September 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2023

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Bus Services Division seek to procure a 3 year consultancy agreement with a provider with engineering compliance experience. The key elements to the agreement are as follows:
• Access to a subscription service designed to keep our operation up to date with the latest transport laws and regulations. Potentially this could include but is not limited to a dedicated website containing useful tools and resources, email service and free telephone access to support.
• Due diligence (confidence and assurance) checks. An annual programme of checks on our partner operators who operate supported and deminimis services on behalf of merseytravel. This will consist of :
1. Undertake operator licence compliance audits
2. Physically inspect a sample of vehicles (10% of fleet or minimum of 4 fleet vehicles) operated from the chosen depot by the operator and used on Merseytravel services for the purpose of tendered and deminimis work.
3. In addition on the selected vehicle sample to check and report on CCTV functionality, destination displays are working and confirm age of vehicles tyres are below 10 years of age.

About the buyer

Contact name

Tender

Address

No 1 Mann Island
Liverpool
L3 1BP
England

Email

tender@merseytravel.gov.uk

Website

http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/