Home to School Transport for Children with Special Educational Needs

BMBC has a statutory duty to arrange home to school travel arrangements for eligible children with special educational needs to access their education . The requirement is for a regular home to school transport service during school term time both in the Borough of Barnsley and out of the Borough, which include daily, weekly, fortnightly, or termly singly or return journeys.The Service Providers will be required to provide a range of vehicles to deliver the services, from cars to passenger carrying vehicles (vehicles with 6 seats and more). There will be a requirement for a number of vehicles to be fitted with appropriate equipment to enable clients to access/egress the vehicle safely. Vehicle requirement depending on routes will comprise of the following:

Saloon - Non-wheelchair - Up to 4 Passenger Seats

MPV - Non-wheelchair - Up to 8 Passenger Seats

Minibus - Non-wheelchair - Up to 16 Passenger Seats

Saloon - Wheelchair - Up to 4 Passenger Seats

MPV - Wheelchair - Up to 8 Passenger Seats

Minibus - Wheelchair - Up to 16 Passenger Seats

Circa 200 pupils to be travel to and from 16 different schools, mainly on a day to day basis.

Key date for the commencement of delivery this service is the start of the new academic year September 2017. The requirement is for circa 30 routes which will be awarded on an individual basis.

Additional information: Applicants will need to register their interest against this procurement event via YORtender in order to gain access to the tender documents. Applicants must register and submit completed tender documents via www.yortender.co.uk

Once you have completed your registration, please follow the below steps to access the ITT Documents. If you are already registered on YORtender:

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Register your interest by clicking on My Activities, Select Barnsley (LHS of Screen) and press update which is situated RHS bottom of screen.

A list of tender events you have registered your interest in will appear.

Click on the relevant tender. This will open up the relevant tender. Click on 'start' on the ITT, Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see all the documents to download.

Please note you MUST upload all your documents before the tender deadline date - any part loaded responses will not be visible to BMBC if the deadline time and date passes and we cannot accept your submission by another other means than YORtender. Please allow plenty of time to ensure your complete bid is uploaded.

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