Contract For The Provision Of Community Outreach Active Travel Projects Services

Tender description

Activities to increase the number of people walking and cycling for daily journeys (active travel) have been supported by OCC public health and the active travel team in environment and place since 2020 with funding from the Department for Transport’s Emergency Active Travel Fund, introduced following the first lockdown to support social distancing and other COVID secure measures. Since then, Oxfordshire County Council has been successful in securing funding on a yearly basis for infrastructure projects and revenue costs to support a range of active travel schemes and the delivery of complementary measures to promote walking and cycling.?The complementary measures have formed the basis of OCC’s Cycling and Walking Activation Programme (CWAP), led by Public Health and delivered by the Council’s active travel team and a number of external agencies. The activation programme aims to capitalise on the infrastructure works and engage the population with this new infrastructure in order to increase numbers cycling and walking for active travel and to increase levels of physical activity. Its projects seek to identify effective ways to achieve modal shift, to understand barriers to cycling and walking and to work with the community to deliver interventions to enable residents to change their behaviour, in particular those experiencing health inequalities.? The successful tenderer will be required to administer a grant application and approval scheme to provide for infrastructure projects and revenue costs to support a range of active travel schemes and the delivery of complementary measures to promote walking and cycling. Responses to this tender must be submitted via the Portal by Monday 17 July 2023 at 11:00am. The Contract period is intended to be 3 years commencing on 1 October 2023, with an option for the Council to extend the Contract period by a further 2 years in aggregate. Keywords: Active, Travel, Grant Administration, Walk, Cycle