Issue - meetings

This report requests approval to invite tenders for the framework, as required by Standing Orders 88 and 89.   The Framework will operate for a period of four years and will commence in April 2012. The Participating Boroughs have given their agreement that this requirement should be tendered by Brent as Lead Borough for this Procurement. 

      i.        that the pre-tender considerations and the criteria to be used to evaluate tenders, as set out in paragraph 7.1 of the report, be approved;

    ii.        that officers invite tenders and evaluate them in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria referred to in the decision above.

The report from the Director of Finance and Corporate Services explained that Brent Council was participating in the West London Alliance Transport Efficiency Programme in collaboration with the London Boroughs of Barnet, Ealing and Hounslow with the potential for wider collaboration over the next few years with other future partner organisations including London Boroughs, the NHS, Transport for London and other relevant public sector providers. The Programme sought to deliver savings in the cost of transport provision for participating partners, whilst maintaining or improving service standards, through a wide range of collaborative initiatives including the procurement of a single framework for the provision of contracted passenger transport services for the carriage of vulnerable adults, children/young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) children, disabled people, patients and other authorised individuals. The Framework would operate for a period of four years and would commence in April 2012. The report requested approval to invite tenders for the framework, as required by Standing Orders 88 and 89.

Councillor Butt (Lead Member, Resources) stated that the Framework was expected to provide savings through greater economies of scale, and more efficient operating arrangements than the current single borough arrangements. 

RESOLVED:-

(i)         that the pre-tender considerations and the criteria to be used to evaluate tenders, as set out in paragraph 7.1 of the report, be approved;

(ii)        that officers invite tenders and evaluate them in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria referred to in the decision above.