Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendations.

Councillor Attridge introduced the Integrated Transport Unit (ITU) report which provided details on a proposed revised procurement process and a starting date for new contracts.

                        At any one time the ITU had approximately 450 individual contracts with local suppliers, delivering all of the transport needs for Schools, Colleges, Social Care and the general Public Transport service.  This created a significant amount of workload for staff within the service and put pressure on the local supply chain to deal with the continuous tender processes. 

The report proposed a revised procurement option which would reduce the workloads both within the ITU and for the local supply chain with contracts operating for a period of four years from the start of the new arrangement.  In order to align the commencement dates for all of the existing contracts it would be necessary to extend the current transport contracts to the proposed start date of the new arrangement which was 4^th September 2017.

Councillor Kevin Jones welcomed the report which would result in a streamlined process and also provide security to operators for the duration of the contract.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the new procurement model for the Transportation contracts, detailed within the Procurement Commissioning Form, be approved; and

(b)       That the extension of the existing Transport contracts until 4^th September 2017, in order to coincide with the commencement of the new procurement arrangements, be approved.