Home To School Transport Zone 2 and Mid Terms March 2016.

Descriptions

The Council is seeking service providers to supply home to school transport requirements in Zone 2 mainly serving schools/colleges in Bicester, Kidlington, Wheatley and Woodstock.In addition to these routes, there are also mid-term requirements for schools in West Oxfordshire and Wantage areas and taxi/people carrier requirements across Oxfordshire.— Lot 1 — Zone 2. Contract Start date: 7.3.2016. Contract End date: 4.3.2022;— Lot 2 — Zone 2. Contract Start date: 7.3.2016. Contract End date: 2.3.2018 with an option to extend in aggregate up to 4 years;— Lot 3 — Zone 3. Contract Start date: 7.3.2016. Contract End date: 3.3.2017;— Lot 4 — Zone 4. Contract Start date: 7.3.2016. Contract End date: 2.3.2018;— Lot 5 — Cars and People Carriers — Contract Start date: 7.3.2016. Contract End date: 3.3.2017.Lots 1 to 4 require vehicles with 16 seats or more. Lot 2 requires vehicles with 13 seats or less.For more information about the route details and specifications, please refer to Section C the ITT and Appendix 4 — Route Specifications and Pricing.Tenderers may bid for 1 or more Lots.Tenderers are invited to bid for all routes they wish to be considered for. Tenderers do not have to submit a price for all routes within a Lot. Tenderers may select which routes within a Lot they wish to be considered for.Contracts will be awarded by Lot. A Tenderer may be awarded more than one route within a Lot, for example, a Tenderer may successfully be awarded 6 routes in Lot 1, 2 routes in Lot 3 and 1 route in Lot 5. 3 contracts would be issued, 1 contract for Lot 1 containing 6 routes, 1 contract for lot 3 containing 2 routes and 1 contract for Lot 5 containing 1 route.