Market engagement related to transport provisions for Special Educational Needs, Home to School, Adult Social Care and Local Bus contracting models.

ECC is currently in its final year of its Passenger Transport DPS. As a result, the Passenger Transport Procurement Team are exploring potential options for the 2024 procurement of Home to School, Adult Social Care and Local Bus contracts, one of which is a lead provider model. This PIN seeks to understand if there would be any potential suppliers interested in being a lead provider in this category. The expected spend for this potential opportunity would be £40 million annually. We are interested to hear the market views on the deliverability of services under this model and the best possible ways to divide the current services. This could involve a single supplier providing transport services across the whole county or alternatively a lead provider in each quadrant of the county or a split per service type. A lead provider should be able to take on all requirements specified by ECC, and it is likely a proportion of this work will need to be subcontracted to a number of other suppliers. To express an interest in this PIN please contact [email protected]. Any supplier who expresses an interest in this PIN by will be invited to discuss this lead provider model further. Please note this PIN is for information purposes only and does not assure a lead provider model will be used in the future and does not guarantee any provider any work in the future.

Additional information: Prior Information Notice: Legal Basis: Directive 2014/24/EU Section I: Contracting authority I.1) Name and addresses Official name: Essex County Council Town: Chelmsford NUTS code: UKH34 Essex Haven Gateway Country: United Kingdom Contact person: E-mail: [email protected] Main address: www.essex.gov.uk

I.3) Communication Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity Other activity: Market Testing

Section II: Object II II.1 Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title: Market engagement related to transport provisions for Special Educational Needs, Home to School, Adult Social Care contracting models.

II.1.4) Short description: ECC is currently in its final year of its Passenger Transport DPS. As a result, the Passenger Transport Procurement Team are exploring potential options for the 2024 procurement of Home to School, Adult Social Care and Local Bus contracts, one of which is a lead provider model. This PIN seeks to understand if there would be any potential suppliers interested in being a lead provider in this category. The expected spend for this potential opportunity would be £40 million annually. We are interested to hear the market views on the deliverability of services under this model and the best possible ways to divide the current services. This could involve a single supplier providing transport services across the whole county or alternatively a lead provider in each quadrant of the county or a split per service type. A lead provider should be able to take on all requirements specified by ECC, and it is likely a proportion of this work will need to be subcontracted to a number of other suppliers. In order to express an interest in this PIN please contact [email protected]. Any supplier who expresses an interest in this PIN will be invited to discuss this lead provider model further. Please note this PIN is for information purposes only and does not assure a lead provider model will be used in the future and does not guarantee any provider any work in the future.

II.1.5) Estimated total value: Around £40 million is currently spent via the DPS. II.1.6) Information about lots This contract is divided into lots: no

II.2) Description II. 2.3) Place of performance

II.2.4) Description of the procurement: This PIN does not relate to a procurement exercise and is for information purposes only.

II.2.14) Additional information

Section IV: Procedure IV.1) Description IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

Section VI: Complementary information VI.3) Additional information:

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

Closing date for responses: 10.01.23