Procurement of Buckinghamshire County Council's home to school client transport services delivered b

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Procurement of Buckinghamshire County Council's home to school client transport services delivered by vehicles with fewer than 17 seats (taxis and mini-buses), Special Educational Needs (SEND) home to school and Adult Social Care contracts.The Buckinghamshire County Council (the ‘Contracting Authority’) intends to use the open procedure of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to procure the public contract (‘the Contract’) and the Contracting Authority intends to procure the Contract for its own benefit. The scope of the contract will include: transportation of Special Educational Needs customers to and from an establishment for every school day of the year and Adult Social Care customers to and from an establishment operating 52 weeks a year (the ‘Services’). The service will provide transport for all establishment types in Buckinghamshire and some out of county establishments. The Services are divided into specified routes details of each Contract group is referenced in the specification document of the Invitation to Tender. Each Contract group is a Lot for the purposes of this procurement. Further details of the Lots is set out in Section II.1.8 and Annex B. The age of the customers will fall between 2 years and 115 years of age.The Contract will be for a period of 48 MonthsThe Service Provider(s) will need to adhere to all key performance indicators, service standards and staff training obligations set out in the terms and conditions and the specification. All Service Provider(s) and their employees will have to be compliant with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) requirements pursuant to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award the contract for a particular Lot or indeed for any Lot.