Vehicle & Passenger Booking System, Support & Maintenance Reissue

Cheshire West and Chester?s Transport Commissioning Service is responsible for the commissioning of all the Council?s transport contracts. These include transport contracts for:

- Adult social care (including adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health disabilities and older people with a social care need). - Special Educational Needs (SEN) School Transport - ?Looked after children? - Mainstream School Transport - Community Transport - In House Passenger Transport provision.

In addition, the Transport Commissioning Service monitors all of these contracts for compliance with our terms and conditions. Passengers travelling within our care must be adequately safeguarded and in order to do this, we hold a Driver Vetting database of contractors staff to ensure they are fit to work on our contracts. This equally applies to our in house staff.

The Service holds vehicle details for all contractors including our in house provision as well as making the appropriate payments to these contractors.

Additional information: This opportunity is being procured using an e-tendering system called The Chest. If you are not currently registered, go to the following and click the ?Register Free? box: https://www.the-chest.org.uk /procontract/supplier.nsf/frm_home. If you go to https://www.the-chest.org.uk/procontract/supplier.nsf/frm_opportunity_search. You will be able to search via the ?Organisation? drop down menu for Cheshire West and Chester tenders. Select this particular opportunity from the list and register interest; you will then be able to find further information and access the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document and any additional Information. The Closing Date for receipt of ITT submissions via ?The Chest? is on 29/03/2016 (12:00). You are advised to express an interest and subsequently access and start your ITT Response and meet the deadline, which is absolute. Once the closing date has passed, the evaluation process will begin. It is estimated that a decision will not be made until 11/04/2016. The guidance notes provided with the ITT document on the Chest show an estimated timetable to assist you. The ITT and any subsequent additional information will be available to download from ?The Chest?. It is your responsibility to download the ITT document from ?The Chest?. Please do not call the Procurement Department to find out initial details of this opportunity - all instructions and details of this opportunity will be found in the ITT document once you have accessed it on the Chest. Any clarification questions must be raised via ?The Chest? in the Questions and Answers section. Any notifications regarding this opportunity will be issued via ?The Chest?. It is your responsibility to check ?The Chest? to be aware of any updates.

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