Driving-school services

Tender description

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) (referred to hereafter as the ‘Authority’) Defence School of Transport (DST) is the training delivery authority for all wheeled driver training for Defence. The DST's responsibility ranges from licence acquisition through to specialist vehicle platform training and mechanical transport-related management courses. The Authority's personnel frequently require licence acquisition training in order to drive the vehicles they are expected to operate in the course of their duties. To meet the statutory and legal obligations set for the DST, the Authority's personnel must hold the appropriate category of licence to operate military vehicles legally on public roads. The purpose of this Procurement is to appoint a single Supplier, in each of the 7 Lots within the scope of this Procurement, to provide concurrent Licence Acquisition Training (‘LAT’) to the Authority's personnel. In each of Lots 1 — 5, the Supplier will be required to deliver Category B / B+E / C / C+E / D / D1 / D1+E LAT in a specific geographical region. In Lot 6 the Supplier will be required to deliver Category B / B+E LAT nationally at Phase 2 training establishments. In Lot 7 the Supplier will be required to deliver Category C / C+E LAT nationally at Phase 2 training establishments. Potential Providers are permitted to bid for all or any combination of the 7 Lots. However, to support the assurance of continuity of supply and to reduce supply chain risk, a Potential Provider may only be awarded a Contract in one of Lots 1 — 5 (inclusive), and a Potential Provider may only be awarded a Contract in either Lot 6 or Lot 7. This means that the maximum possible number of Contracts a Potential Provider may be awarded as a result of this Procurement is 2, namely: — A Contract in one of Lots 1 — 5 (inclusive); and — A Contract in either Lot 6 or Lot 7. Where a Potential Provider is successful in one of Lots 1 — 5, any Tender it has submitted for any other Lot in Lots 1 — 5 will be excluded from consideration for the purposes of this Procurement. Where a Potential Provider is successful in either Lot 6 or Lot 7, any Tender it has submitted for the other Lot (i.e. either Lot 6 or Lot 7) will be excluded from consideration for the purposes of this Procurement. For Lot 2, the Authority considers that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (‘TUPE’) is unlikely to apply to the Contract awarded as a result of this Procurement. For Lot 1, and Lots 3 — 7, the Authority considers TUPE may apply to the Contracts awarded as a result of this Procurement. For all Lots, it is the responsibility of Potential Providers to take their own advice and consider whether TUPE is likely to apply in the particular circumstances of the Contracts that will be established as a result of this Procurement.