Agenda item

Gateway 3 Contract Award: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Transport DPS

Minutes:

Background:

 

This report provided sought permission to award the procurement of the SEND Transport Contract.

 

An updated Exempt Appendix 1 to the report set out financial analysis in relation to the procurement and recommended the provider the contract should be awarded to.

Decision

number:

 

Decision:

 

105/2024

The Cabinet agreed to award a place on the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to the following bidders named in section 3.2.1 of the updated Exempt Appendix 1 as they have been evaluated as having passed the Council’s admittance award criteria.

ASD Transport

24x7 Ltd 

abc taxis

HATS Group Ltd

John Reilly Transport

Canada Cabs Ltd

SAS Executive Travel

K Transport

VOKES TAXIS LIMITED

106/2024

The Cabinet agreed that the following suppliers (as set out in 3.4 of the updated Exempt Appendix 1) are awarded the contracts for school transport to the named schools below as they have been evaluated as the most economically advantageous against the mini competition award criteria.

24x7 Transport

·     Abbey Court Primary Community School (North Block)

·     Abbey Court Primary Community School (South Block)

·     Abbey Court Secondary Community School (South Block)

·     All Faiths Childrens Academy

·     Aspire School

·     Belle Vue School (North Block)

·     Belle Vue School (South Block)

·     Bradfields Academy (South Block)

·     Delce Academy & the Bridge

·     Elaine Education Centre

·     Ifield School

·     Inspire the Orchards

·     ISP School

·     Milestone Academy (Longfield site)

·     Robert Napier School

·     The Rowans

·     Twydall Primary School

·     Curly's Farm

·     Medway Green

·     DUAL 1 Abbey Court Secondary

·     DUAL 2 Abbey Court Secondary

·     Dual 3 Five Acre Woods

HATS Group

·     Abbey Court Upper

·     Bradfields Academy (North Block)

·     Five Acre Woods

·     Valence School

·     Abbey Court Secondary

Canada Cabs

·     ALP Sittingbourne

·     Blue Skies

·     Brogdale (Ashford)

·     BroomHill Bank School (North)

·     Browns School

·     Caldecott Foundation School

·     Canterbury College (North Block)

·     Canterbury College (South Block)

·     Catch 22

·     City of Rochester

·     Cleeve Meadow School

·     Cornfields School (South Block)

·     Elmy Drey School

·     EPR

·     Grow 19

·     Heath Farm School (6 Form)

·     Hope View Lower School

·     Hopeview School

·     Howard School

·     Kite College

·     Link 19 College (North Kent College)

·     Little Acorns School

·     Meadowfields School

·     Meadows School

·     Mid Kent College (Maidstone site)

·     Milestone Academy (Dartford Satellite Site)

·     Newingate School

·     Oak Lodge (weekly boarder)

·     Oakley School

·     Orpheus College

·     Parkwood Hall Academy

·     Rainham Mark Grammar School

·     Rochester Independent College

·     Rowhill School

·     Serenity School

·     Snowfields Academy (Cranbrook)

·     St John's Catholic Comprehensive School

·     Supajam (Canterbury Site)

·     The GFC

·     The Malling School

·     The Quest School Primary

·     The Quest School Secondary

·     The T3 School

·     Tidemill Academy

·     Trinity church of England Primary School

·     Triple R

·     Tubbenden Primary School ARP Unit

·     Victory Academy

·     Warren Wood (Evergreen Centre) South Block

·     West Heath School

·     White Rock Farm College

·     Respite

·     The Quest School

·     Abbey Court Primary

·     DUAL 4 Abbey Court Upper

·     DUAL 5 Abbey Court Upper

SAS Executive Travel

·     Abbey Court Secondary Community School (North Block)

·     Bemix

·     Brompton Academy (Eliot Centre) (North Block)

·     City of Rochester alt site

·     Cornfields School (North Block)

·     Grange Park

·     Infinity School

·     Snowfields Academy (Bearsted)

·     The Thomas Aveling School

·     Abbey Court Primary

K Transport

·     Alchemy School Tutoring ME10

·     Bower Grove (North Block)

·     Bower Grove (South Block)

·     Byron Primary School

·     Curly's Farm

·     Delce Academy & the Bridge

·     Foreland Fields School

·     Glebe School

·     Halling Primary School

·     Heath Farm School (Primary)

·     Milestone Academy  (Wilimington Grammar)

·     Pierview Academy

·     Riverside School (Orpington)

·     Strood Academy

·     Wainscott Primary School

·     Warren Wood (Evergreen Centre) North Block

·     Dual 6 Bradfields

·     Dual 7 Bradfields

·     DUAL 8 Danecourt School

·     DUAL 9 Abbey Court Primary School

·     Abbey Court Primary

Vokes Taxis

·     Bower Grove (Westborough school satellite location)

·     Bradstow School

·     Brogdale (Faversham)

·     Brogdale (Iwade)

·     Brogdale (Stourside based at Wyvern School Ashford)

·     BroomHill Bank School (West) Tonbridge site

·     Canterbury Academy

·     Endeavour Academy

·     Five Acre Woods (Snodland Site)

·     Greenacre Academy

·     Hadlow College

·     Helen Allison School

·     Helen Allison School (Longfield Site)

·     Holmesdale School

·     Inspire Academy

·     Inspire the Meadows

·     Inspire the Timbers

·     K Sports

·     Maplesden Noakes

·     Meadowfields School (Six form site)

·     Nexus School

·     Orchard School

·     Rainham School for Girls

·     Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School

·     Sports Connect

·     St John Fisher Catholic School

·     Supajam

·     UTC Waterfront

·     Walderslade Girls

·     Write Trak

·     City of Rochester

107/2024

The Cabinet agreed to directly award Medway Norse Transport via the Teckal exemption, the routes contained below (as set out within the table in 3.5 of the updated Exempt Appendix 1) as per the rationale contained within the body of paragraph 3.5 of the updated Exempt Appendix 1.

·       Brompton Academy (Eliot Centre) (South Block)

·       Danecourt School (Bligh Way)

·       Danecourt School (Featherby School)

·       Danecourt School Main Site

·       Hundred of Hoo Academy

·       Marlborough Centre

·       Medway Green School

·       Mid Kent College

·       Ripplevale School

·       Rivermead Community School

·       St Werburgh Centre

 

 

Reasons:

 

The provision of SEN transport to eligible pupils is a statutory duty and the implementation of the DPS and the award of contracts pursuant to the mini competition process fulfils this requirement in the most cost-effective way.

 

It is imperative to note, transport requirements for young people are often required to be put into place immediately.

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