Local Bus Contract Opportunity Cheshire East Council

Tender description

The local bus network in Cheshire East is a mixture of: Supported Services which are subsidised by the Council and operated on our behalf: and Commercial Bus Services which are run by private operators who have full control over how, where and when those bus services are run. For supported services operators are requested to provide a service on various timetables across the East of Cheshire and surrounding areas. Details of the required specifications is detailed within tender documentation. Transport Service Solutions (TSS herein and wholly owned by Cheshire East Council), gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes or as to the value of the work during the contract period for the opportunity to be published. Possible variations: should any occur updated information will be provided via The Chest website. TSS may exercise an option to extend the contract for a period of up to 6 months in total. The successful operator will need to complete contract documentation prior to the contract start date. TSS reserves the right not to award the published contract. All bids must be submitted using the spreadsheet that will accompany the published opportunity. You are invited to submit your bids for a Minimum Cost contract only, Minimum Support bids will not be considered for this opportunity. TSS accepts that contractors may identify that they can offer a better value bid through a variation. TSS will consider variant bids but reserves the right to decide which tender evaluation takes priority (whether the original or variant). TSS decision is final. Full documentation for the tender submission will be released on Thursday 3rd September 2020 with a closing date for all submissions to be received by 12noon on Friday 11th September 2020. Keywords: Local Bus