Vehicle Accident Repair Services

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Vehicle Accident Repair Services are required from Automotive Bodyshops who are certified to Vehicle Damage Repair Kitemark PAS 125 Category 3 standard. Vehicle Accident Repair services will cover cars, light/heavy vehicles and motorcycles, including collection, storage and repair. The Automotive Bodyshop will also be responsible for having recovery vehicles to collect/deliver from/to Police HQ or other locations within Cheshire Constabulary area. The Automotive Bodyshop will also need to be able to attend Police HQ to undertake inspections of vehicles for production of repair estimates. Vehicles owned, hired or leased by Cheshire Constabulary are involved in excess of 450 vehicle related collisions, incidents and cases of criminal damage each year. Often there may be up to 20 vehicles per week requiring collision or other body repair services, whereas other weeks it could be much lower. Automotive Bodyshops will need to demonstrate the capacity to deal with the anticipated volume of repairs and to cope with fluctuations in demand. Cheshire Constabulary operates (around) 720 vehicles and the fleet completes almost 12 million miles per annum. Maintenance and servicing of vehicles is completed in the Constabulary’s Fleet Services Unit based at the Constabulary’s Headquarters in Winsford, Cheshire by skilled Police staff. The Automotive Bodyshop providing the Vehicle Accident Repair Service will need to work with the Constabulary’s Fleet Services Unit to return vehicles to the road and operational use in an efficient and cost effective manner. Full details of the requirements are set out in the Specification/Requirements/Detailed Responses Section. A framework agreement will be established for four years. The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire intends to award a call off contract of 3 years with two options to extend of 1 year. The framework will also be open for use by Cheshire Fire Authority, for vehicles within the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Fleet.