Published date: 19 June 2020
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.
Contract summary
Industry
Software programming and consultancy services - 72200000
Location of contract
South East
Value of contract
£500,000
Procurement reference
KENT001-DN481338-63173756
Published date
19 June 2020
Closing date
24 July 2020
Contract start date
31 July 2020
Contract end date
19 June 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Negotiated procedure
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
This contract will be awarded by Competitive Procedure with Negotiation without further publication of a call for competition and interested economic operators are hereby invited to express their interest and completing the SQ which can be downloaded from the Kent Business Portal.
Opportunity
Kent County Council (KCC) is seeking a single supplier of an Optimising Service to enable it to transform the delivery of home to school travel, with particular - though not exclusive - focus on children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
Outcome
KCC spends approximately £33m a year providing transport to and from school/college for about 5,000 children and young people with SEND. The number of passengers and costs continue rising and the successful supplier's solution needs to satisfy both the following criteria:
• A meaningful and sustainable diminishing cost of provision of this transport, measured on a like-for-like resource reduction: Drivers, Vehicles and Passenger Assistants
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• Maintaining and where feasible improving service quality, measured by impact on the children and young people expressed through: Passengers, Carers and Schools (e.g. SENCOs)
Summary requirements
The successful supplier will need to demonstrate its track record in using a digital system to cluster SEND passengers into Optimal Travel Groups (OTGs) which may be competitively tendered to passenger transport operators.
Required capability shall include:
• Scalable to process up to 7,000 SEND passengers
• Detailed GDPR-compliant database stored on the Cloud
• Live and Archive segmentation
• Operable and configurable by KCC and the system supplier
• Operations, configuration and design service partnering with KCC to deliver enhanced quality throughout the contractual period
• Validated shareability of each passenger in an OTG
• Varying OTG size based on SEND behavioural mitigation and social distancing requirements
• Production of optimal routing options per OTG, applying timing constraints and route restriction rules
• Accommodation of Driver and Passenger Assistant requirements and restrictions
• Output Viewer: Production of detailed tables and maps by OTG and by passenger
• Long term planning as well as continual updating to accommodate passenger churn
To express an interest in this tender opportunity please follow this link https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=38b1e29b-3ca7-ea11-8103-005056b64545&p=8691483f-2f3d-e711-80e1-005056b64545
About the buyer
Contact name
Todd Davis
Address
Sessions House
Maidstone
ME14 1XQ
United Kingdom
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