Decision details
Award of SEN Transport Contracts - September 2018 (Ref 2808)
Decision Maker: Director for economy, communities and corporate (Historic)
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
The decision has been taken to:
1. Award SEN Transport contract numbers BF596P, WF592S, BM275S and
BF630P as follows:
Contract BF596P – Brookfield School. Awarded to Blue Line for
a 5 year term commencing 1st November 2018 at an annual value of
£151,000. 1 Compliant bid was received.
Transport for Brookfield School is currently provided by school
operated vehicles paid for by the Local Authority. This is
supplemented by a further 7 commercial contracts held with local
operators. The total cost of these services is £166,000 per
annum. Following notification by Brookfield School that they wish
to cease providing in-house transport a tender was published which
consolidated all of these contracts in to one, contract
BF596P.
The award of this contract achieved an annual saving of
£15,000 and a reduction in the number of vehicles used from
10 to 8.
Contract WF592S – Westfield School, Leominster. Awarded to CM
Davies for a 5 year term commencing 4th September 2018 at an annual
value of £44,650. Contract WF592S replaces a Council operated
service at an additional annual cost of £4,905. 1 Compliant
bid was received.
Contract BF630P – Brookfield School. Awarded to Blue Line for
1 term commencing 6th September 2018 at a total value of
£615. Contract BF630P provides short term transport for new
starters at Brookfield School during their phased introduction to a
full time timetable. This contract replaces like for like contracts
and has no additional budgetary costs. 3 Compliant bids were
received.
Contract BM275S – Blackmarston School. Awarded to Blue Line
Taxis for a 5 year term commencing 4th September at an annual value
of £21,850. This is an additional contract required to
provide specialist medical transport to an SEN student with
significant health needs.
The net effect of the retendering of these 4 contracts is an
increase in contracting costs of £11,755.
Contact: Steve Burgess, Head of transport and access services Email: sburgess@herefordshire.gov.uk Tel: 01432260968.
Publication date: 10/09/2018
Date of decision: 03/09/2018
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