Taxi services

Tender description

Leicestershire County Council (‘the Council’) provides transport for a variety of service users including those accessing children and young people’s and adult social care services. Their specific needs are coordinated by our in-house transport operations (TO) service based at County Hall in Leicestershire. As long as suppliers can meet the minimum requirements for entry onto the DPS, there are no restrictions on who can or cannot join. There are also no restrictions on when a supplier can apply to join during the period of the DPS. The intention of the DPS is to appoint suitable operators of taxis to whom LCC will let individual contracts following a ‘further competition’; specifically: — the provision of both a driver and vehicle, — the operation of taxis of various seating capacities, — the operation of taxis of various configurations and specifications including wheelchair accessible vehicles, — the carriage of a variety of service users including children, vulnerable adults. Contracts awarded from the small vehicle passenger transport services (DPS SV5) 380778-2019.