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Merseytravel

MSC Cruise Coach Services

TransportCPV 60170000
Value£227k
Awarded1 Nov 2018
Published5 Feb 2019
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£227ktotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Merseytravel is the executive body for transport of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

As part of this role, Merseytravel owns and operates the Mersey Ferries.

Mersey Ferries operate a programme of cruises along the Manchester Ship Canal, between Liverpool/Wirral and Salford.

There are around 40-50 cruises each year, usually between April and October.

Merseytravel requires a reliable, high-quality, customer-focused coach service to provide return travel for cruise customers, either from Salford to Liverpool/Wirral or vice versa.

The numbers of passengers on each cruise varies, but the maximum is 350.

The contract period is from April 2019 to March 2022 (although it may be extended by up to 2 years, at Merseytravel's discretion).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Merseytravel requires a reliable, high-quality, customer-focused coach

Merseytravel requires a reliable, high-quality, customer-focused coach service to provide return travel for cruise customers, either from Salford to Liverpool/Wirral or vice versa.

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OCID
936c5806-eda7-4557-84dc-89c279925f12
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
MERTVL001-DN358871-84871573
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