Issue - meetings

To consider commencing a procurement exercise to establish a replacement Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for taxi transport contracts.

Cabinet Portfolio Holder – Councillor Wallace Redford

Cllr Wallace Redford (Portfolio Holder for Transport and Planning) introduced this report, explaining that all bus and taxi transport organised by Transport Delivery was procured via two separate Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS), a Bus DPS and a Taxi DPS.  Compliant with procurement legislation, a DPS was an electronic open marketplace system that suppliers could join at any time, and was designed to provide access to a pool of pre-qualified suppliers quickly and efficiently as the need arose.  Cabinet had approved a replacement bus services DPS on 15 December 2022, and this report sought approval for the early replacement of the taxi DPS to address provisions for dealing with annual contract inflationary increases and ensure that allocated funding was more efficiently utilised.

There were no questions or comments on the report.  

Resolved

That Cabinet:

1.     Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Planning, to commence an appropriate procurement exercise to establish a replacement Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for taxi transport contracts; and

2.     Authorises the Strategic Director for Communities to enter into all necessary contracts and agreements to establish the DPS for the provision of taxi transport on terms and conditions acceptable to the Strategic Director for Resources, with subsequent call-off contracts for specific routes awarded under the DPS in line with Contract Standing Orders.