Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, on Passenger Transport Contract Tenders.

The Board was advised that the Council’s Transportation Co-ordination section was responsible for a complex range of passenger transport contracts and arrangements for vulnerable children and adults. It was reported that the Passenger Transport Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) was a mechanism for the Council to identify transport providers capable of delivering the specialist nature of transport contracts on its behalf. The DPS process provided a platform to advertise long term and short term contracts over a reduced advertising period.

Members were advised that the DPS process had the potential to attract additional transport suppliers which would enable extra capacity to cope with the volume of contract work which the Council required.

RESOLVED: That

1)    the Passenger Transport Contract Tenders on behalf of designated specialist assessment departments within the People Directorate be acknowledged; and

2)    the Board support the requirement to tender and procure passenger transport contracts through an electronic DPS process.