Published date: 4 January 2023

Last edited date: 12 January 2023

This notice was replaced on 4 October 2023

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

Awarded contract (published 4 October 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

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Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£40,000

Procurement reference

NNC00000378

Published date

4 January 2023

Closing date

23 January 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

13 February 2023

Contract end date

30 November 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Parking plays an important role in North Northamptonshire Council's efforts to manage congestion in our market towns and deliver on our commitment to making the area more sustainable, in response to our declaration of a climate emergency, and committing to being carbon neutral by 2030:
https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/news/council-commits-being-carbon-neutral-2030.

The car parking, we offer residents and businesses needs to be affordable, convenient and enable a thriving local economy across our market towns. Many of our local town centres are changing, with a challenging retail market and a growing resident and evolving business population. The Council's parking assets, both on and off street, provide an essential element in the vitality of our town centres, however, our parking strategy must help promote cleaner, greener, more sustainable travel, and embrace changing vehicle technology, such as the switch to electric vehicles and provision of multimodal transport hubs.

Parking and kerbside management have an important role to play within the wider transport policy and strategy objectives. The Council is responsible for 59 public car parks with a further 5 leased or managed by third parties. The income from parking, is currently only collected in Corby and Kettering town centres and in our Country Parks. This accounts for 9 public car parks in the town centres and 4 in the Country Parks, these charges contribute to delivering the Council's services. This may remain the case.

Like many civil parking enforcement authorities, North Northamptonshire offers similar customer facing services such as public car parks, resident permit parking, on-street parking management and specialist restrictions for disabled users, goods loading/unloading, school keep clear zones and measures to support public transport. The scope of services offered, the charges applied and accessibility/flexibility to the resident/customer vary greatly. Reinvestment into optimising assets and the Parking Service as a whole is a key driver for the Council and its stakeholders.

We want an exemplary Parking Service that uses the latest technology to deliver a customer focussed service, with a fair and transparent pricing and enforcement policy. We want to gain recognition for parking management as a valued service and significant contributor to a better, safer, more accessible and sustainable environment.

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About the buyer

Contact name

North Northamptonshire Procurement Team

Address

The Cube,George Street
CORBY
NN168TL
England

Email

procurement@northnorthants.gov.uk