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Dorset County Council

Corporate Vehicle Body Repair Framework

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50100000
Value£1.0m
Awarded27 Nov 2017
Published28 Dec 2017
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.0mtotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This is a large award for Repair & Maintenance — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Council is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement with suitable contractors with a local presence to provide a corporate vehicle body repair service, including the option of insurance repairs to both corporate vehicles and third party vehicles.

The purpose of the Framework is to appoint Contractors who will ensure that corporate and third party vehicle body repairs are carried out in a timely manner and conform to all current Health and Safety requirements and to minimise the cost of repair, transportation costs and waste.

The Framework will provide a fully comprehensive service for vehicle body repairs and a repair network across Dorset for a wide variety of vehicle types.

The users of the Framework will be Dorset County Council (including Dorset Highways Organisation (DHO) who will be the contracting party to the Framework Agreement, and Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP)) and Dorset Fire & Rescue Service (DF&RS) The successful Contractors will be responsible for establishing a safe, effective and efficient bodywork repair network that provides the Council with a comprehensive service across the whole of Dorset.

This may take the form of Contractors with an established sub-contractor base.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Framework will provide a fully comprehensive

The Framework will provide a fully comprehensive service for vehicle body repairs and a repair network across Dorset for a wide variety of vehicle types.

02

The successful Contractors will be responsible

The successful Contractors will be responsible for establishing a safe, effective and efficient bodywork repair network that provides the Council with a comprehensive service across the whole of Dorset.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
The Council is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement with suitable contractors with a local presence to provide a corporate vehicle body repair service, including the option of insurance repairs to both corporate vehicles and third party vehicles.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
DORST001-DN285959-84634106
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