The Provision of Transportation Services for Adults, Children, Children Looked After and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)

The Council are seeking Service Providers to join the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) providing a diverse range of Adults, Children, Children Looked After and Young People's Transportation including: cars, MPV's, minibuses, small and large accessible vehicles capable of transporting wheelchair users, larger buses and coaches of all sizes.

The Council transports up to 900 Service Users every day, arranged over several hundred individual Route Schedules through contracted Service Providers. This means that during the lifetime of this DPS there will be considerable opportunity for existing and future Service Providers to engage with and, do business with the Council.

The Council has a statutory duty to meet the Transport needs of Adults, Children, Children Looked After and Young People in the borough based on an assessment of need and where the eligibility criteria are met. The Council manages these Services through the use of contracted Service Providers of transport Services with vehicles of all sizes.

The purpose of this procurement is for the Council to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (known as the DPS) for Transportation Services for Adults, Children, Children, Looked After and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).

Additional information:

This exercise is being conducted in electronic format (e-tender). If you wish to take part please register with Dudley MBC e-tendering website www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk and use the Register / Sign In button which is located on the left hand side of the page and complete the registration forms. Following registration, an e-mail will be sent to you advising of your user ID along with a reminder of your e-mail address and password.

Details of the project are located under the All Opportunities link which is also where you can express an interest and receive the documentation. Once you have done this you must log back into the website using the details provided following registration and locate the contract document under Tenders, My Tenders on the menu.

The Tender should be received no later than Tuesday 7th February 2019 at (noon) 12:00 hours.

The Council expressly reserves the right:

• i)not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;
• ii)to make whatever changes it sees fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition;
• iii)to award contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the requirement covered by this notice; and
• iv)to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the Council be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No