P1217 - Children and Young Peoples Travel Service: Agency Passenger Assistants

Birmingham City Council for the provision of agency passenger assistants' ("PA") services to vulnerable children and young people within Birmingham.

The provision of agency PA services falls within The Children and Young People's Travel Services (CYPTS) and is within the Council's Children and Families Directorate.

The opportunity is looking for interested and qualified agencies to join the framework agreement to provide caring, patient and reliable people for the role of PAs who will look after children with special educational needs whilst travelling to and from primary, secondary and special schools on home to school transport. Most routes will be operated within the Birmingham area, but some routes will be operated outside of the Birmingham area.

The Council has its own in-house team of PAs, consisting of permanent and fixed term contract employees. The remaining requirement is met through commissioning PAs (alongside transport) from a number of approved transport providers; as well as a pool of relief/casual PAs centrally managed by the Council. Should the above-mentioned groups not be able to meet the requirement, then agency PAs will be required; and this is the focus of this procurement and this specification..

The framework agreement will be for a period of 4 years commencing on 1st September 2023 with expiry date of 31st August 2027

The Council will be using its free to use e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and potential suppliers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. If you wish to express an interest in this opportunity please click on the following link to access https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register. You will then be sent details on how to log on which will enable you to download all relevant Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation.

If you are unable to register with In-tend or have any questions or problems on how to use this web site please either email us at: cps@birmingham.gov.uk

Your completed tender submission should be returned by noon on 26th May 2023 via the 'in-tend' system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc

Additional information: 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