St Helens Borough Council Home to School Transport Services

<p>St Helens Council are inviting suitably experienced transport operators to tender for journey routes to convey clientele from home to school and various centres/ locations inside and outside the Borough using hired transport. All Applicants who wish to apply for consideration and inclusion for this contract must hold a St Helens Council contract driver badge issued by the Licensing department. A copy of the Licensing Guidance has been included with this tender pack. Only drivers who have a contract driver badge issued by St.Helens Council Licensing Department may be used on this contract. It is the contractor&rsquo;s responsibility to ensure all drivers have undertaken the checks and have a valid photo identification driver card during the contract period. The Council is seeking to procure a supplier in accordance with the open procedure as set out in The Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Part 2, Section 3, Regulation 27 (the &ldquo;Regulations&rdquo;). The Council is using the open procedure due to its requirement for the procurement of suppliers to successfully deliver the Programme. All interested suppliers can submit a tender response and all bidders who meet the selection criteria set out in the Suitability Questionnaire will then proceed to the evaluation stage of the process. St Helens Council wishes to award a contract for 36 months. The Invitation To Tender (&ldquo;ITT&rdquo;) sets out the instructions for the tender process and the tender evaluation criteria for the ITT stage of the procurement process. The ITT has been produced to allow the Council to evaluate the most economically advantageous tender from the view of the Council from the organisations who respond to the OJEU Contract Notice. The Council will score each Bidder&rsquo;s response against the criteria set out in the ITT When the evaluation process has been completed, the Council will inform all Bidders of its decision to award the contract, the reasons for the decision and details of the mandatory standstill period in accordance with Regulation 87 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 No tender documents will be sent to you &ndash; you need to navigate to the &ldquo;my opportunities&rdquo; section and download the documents from the Chest website. If you have any questions regarding this opportunity &ndash; please post them on the &ldquo;discussions&rdquo; facility on the Chest. Messages sent outside of the Chest will not be responded to. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE SENT THROUGH THE CHEST. Submissions sent via any other method will not be accepted. Please ensure that you leave enough time to upload your documents before the closing date/time, as late submissions may not be accepted</p>