Transport Managed Service at the City of London Freemen's School

The City of London Freemen's School is seeking a single transport provider to establish a managed service contract to design, run and manage the transport requirements of Freemen's School.

The City of London Freemen's School is an HMC independent day/boarding school situated in Ashtead Park, Surrey.

The contract in the most part entails the transport of pupils from / to the City of London Freemen's School for Home to School transport. In addition, this contract also requires: - the provision of transport to take pupils and staff to venues for sporting occasions throughout term time, during the week and weekends - e.g. matches against other schools throughout the South East region and other regions of the country sporting fixtures; - the provision of transport for educational cultural excursions throughout the country; - the provision of transport for Duke of Edinburgh and Combined Cadet Force camps; - the provision of transport for any ad hoc requirements including overseas trips. The City reserves the right to exercise the option to add additional schools or parts thereof over the life of the contract that are owned or affiliated or funded in whole or partly funded by the City of London Corporation.

The duration of the contract is 3 years, subject to the right of the City (at its sole discretion) to exercise its right to extend the Contract by up to 2 years. The maximum length of the contract is therefore 5 years.

Additional information: This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'capitalEsourcing' (www.capitalesourcing.com). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

The estimated contract value given is for the full duration of the contract including the maximum possible extensions. The estimated annual contract value is therefore £285,000.

The estimated value includes costs for direct parent-to-provider services. There is no guarantee of minimum levels or value of use from external users.