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Lancashire County Council

LPS CORP - Provision of Local Bus Services and School Bus Services - Dynamic Purchasing System

TransportCPV 60000000
Value£1
Awarded29 Dec 2029
Published15 Dec 2020
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1total contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

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The brief

Lancashire County Council procure local and school bus services in Lancashire.

The Transport services are arranged and funded by Lancashire County Council.

In addition the services include local bus services across the county and into adjoining local authority areas that are complimentary to bus services provided on a commercial basis and the provision of home to school journeys within Lancashire and surrounding areas.

It is the Authority's intention to operate a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for the future provision of these services.

The DPS will be split into two categories: - category one - Local Bus Services and category two - School Bus Services To be appointed onto the DPS suppliers must hold specific operator licences for PSV transport services and meet minimum quality standards covering a range of areas including Insurance, vehicles, contract standards, driver training and appropriate clearance and customer care.

Services are developed by the Public and Integrated Transport Team and are let as individual contracts.

These are tendered by way of a mini-competition between the appointed suppliers.

Further information including details on how the DPS will operate, terms and conditions, specifications, pictorialuser guides, the selection questionnaire required to be completed when requesting to participate in the DPS, and evaluation award criteria to be used to award contracts from the DPS can be found on the link titled provision of Local Bus Services and School Bis Services in Lancashire - dynamic purchasing system which can be located on the following webpage: www.lancashire.gov.uk/business/tenders-and-procurement/tenders/

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To be appointed onto the DPS suppliers

To be appointed onto the DPS suppliers must hold specific operator licences for PSV transport services and meet minimum quality standards covering a range of areas including Insurance, vehicles, contract standards, driver training and appropriate clearance and customer care.

02

Services are developed by the Public

Services are developed by the Public and Integrated Transport Team and are let as individual contracts.

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Source & provenance
OCID
04391963-c009-4e2f-8c96-23b018b28633
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
PH/CORP/LCC/19/916 AWARD
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