Taxi services

Tender description

The University of Southampton has a requirement for the provision of taxi services. The University currently utilises taxi services to carry students, patients, visitors and staff between sites and to other sites/locations for business, academic and health purposes. Lot 1 is for the provision of Local Taxi services – with the majority of these journeys taking place within the vicinity of the Southampton or Winchester area. This local taxi service would also need to provide for journeys across the southern region of the UK in rarer circumstances where the collection point or destination point would be in Southampton, Winchester or the surrounding area. The University is conducting this procurement using the Open procedure in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) for the purpose of procuring the services described in the Specification. It is envisaged that there will be no more than 5 suppliers awarded a place on each lot. Successful suppliers may be awarded a place on one or both lots in accordance with the published award criteria. Tenderers awarded a place on the Framework Agreement will be the 5 highest scoring in accordance with the published award criteria. The number of Suppliers will be based on the top 5 percentage scores in accordance with the published award criteria. Where less than 5 tenderers submit a compliant Tender return, only those tenderers may be awarded a place on the Framework Agreement. Where more than 5 Tenderers submit a compliant Tender return (i.e. a tie), all tenderers achieving a top 5 score would be awarded a place on the Framework Agreement. The University proposes to enter into a Framework Agreement for four years. This will be the maximum Framework Agreement period including any potential extensions with the successful tenderers. This will comprise of an initial Framework Agreement period of two years with an option to extend by a further two, twelve month periods at the discretion of the University. The estimated value of the initial two year Framework Agreement term for Lot 1 is in the region of 160 000 GBP (excluding VAT). The estimated value of the two, one year extension periods is 160 000 GBP (excluding VAT). It is estimated, therefore, that the total value of this lot will be in the region of 320 000 GBP (excluding VAT). Lot 2 is for the provision of Airport Transfer services – with all journeys going to and from airports, in particular Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted although occasional journeys may be required to and from other airports including but not limited to Southampton and Bournemouth airports. The Airport Transfer service is expected to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The University is conducting this procurement using the Open procedure in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) for the purpose of procuring the services described in the Specification. It is envisaged that there will be no more than 5 suppliers awarded a place on each lot. Successful suppliers may be awarded a place on one or both lots in accordance with the published award criteria. Tenderers awarded a place on the Framework Agreement will be the 5 highest scoring in accordance with the published award criteria. The number of Suppliers will be based on the top 5 percentage scores in accordance with the published award criteria. Where less than 5 tenderers submit a compliant Tender return, only those tenderers may be awarded a place on the Framework Agreement. Where more than 5 Tenderers submit a compliant Tender return (i.e. a tie), all tenderers achieving a top 5 score would be awarded a place on the Framework Agreement. The University proposes to enter into a Framework Agreement for 4 years. This will be the maximum Framework Agreement period including any potential extensions with successful tenderers. This will comprise of an initial Framework Agreement period of 2 years with the option to extend by a further two, twelve month periods at the discretion of the University. The estimated value for Lot 2 of the initial 2-year Framework Agreement term is in the region of 590 000 GBP (excluding VAT). The estimated value of the two, one year extension periods is 590 000 GBP (excluding VAT). It is estimated, therefore, that the total value of this lot will be in the region of 1 180 000 GBP (excluding VAT).