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title: "Framework Contract for Transportation"
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# Framework Contract for Transportation

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-contract-for-transportation-ocds-h6vhtk-029b46). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Renfrewshire Council: "Framework Contract for Transportation". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: £8,000,000. 4 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 16 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Renfrewshire Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/renfrewshire-council-ons-s12000038)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £8,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 16 August 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 4
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Hire of buses and coaches with driver, Taxi services, Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
- **Delivery Location:** UKM83
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-029b46`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-contract-for-transportation-ocds-h6vhtk-029b46#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk%2Fesop%2Fpts-host%2Fpublic%2Fpts%2Fweb%2Flogin.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-contract-for-transportation-ocds-h6vhtk-029b46#participate

## Description
Renfrewshire Council has awarded this Framework Contract. The Framework Contract will provide the Purchaser (comprising various parties jointly collaborating in this Tender) with a mechanism to procure transportation services for children and adults, including protected adults, consisting of buses and taxis with, or without, Escorts, meeting all applicable legal requirements and the requirements set out in the related Tender Documents. The Services will include, but not be limited to, planned taxi and bus journeys including ad hoc taxi journeys that the Purchaser's staff may need in the course of their employment and ad hoc bus Journeys that schools may require from time to time.

## Lots (4)
### Lot 1: Additional Support Needs Buses
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 60172000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** This Lot will provide the Purchaser with a mechanism to procure bus hire for fixed Journeys with, or without, Escorts meeting all applicable legal requirements and as set out in the Tender Documents.
- **Contract Period:** 20/12/2021 to 19/12/2025

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Additional Support Needs Taxis
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 60120000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** This Lot will provide the Purchaser with a mechanism to procure taxi hire for fixed Journeys with, or without, Escorts meeting all applicable legal requirements and as set out in the Tender Documents.
- **Contract Period:** 20/12/2021 to 19/12/2025

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 3: Ad Hoc Buses
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 60172000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** This Lot will provide the Purchaser with a mechanism to procure bus hire on an ad hoc basis.
- **Contract Period:** 20/12/2021 to 19/12/2025

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 4: Ad Hoc Taxis
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 60120000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** This Lot will provide the Purchaser with a mechanism to procure taxi hire on an ad hoc basis meeting all applicable legal requirements and as set out in the Tender Documents.
- **Contract Period:** 20/12/2021 to 19/12/2025

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (4)
- **Award:** Additional Support Needs Buses (active)
  - Award id: `002652-2022-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Boyds Coach Hire Limited, GMT Travel t/a Westway Coaches, Ian MacMillan t/a Marleigh Hire (+1 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-183942`, `GB-FTS-183948`, `GB-FTS-183951`, `GB-FTS-183949`
  - Value: £3,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Additional Support Needs Taxis (active)
  - Award id: `002652-2022-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Alan Thomson t/a Alan Thomson Taxis, Chester Paul Greig, Ian MacMillan t/a Marleigh Hire (+4 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-42563`, `GB-FTS-183946`, `GB-FTS-183951`, `GB-FTS-183941`, `GB-FTS-42567`, `GB-FTS-183943`, `GB-FTS-183944`
  - Value: £3,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Ad Hoc Buses (active)
  - Award id: `002652-2022-3`
  - Supplier(s): **Boyds Coach Hire Limited, Ian MacMillan t/a Marleigh Hire, Marbill Coach Services Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-183942`, `GB-FTS-183951`, `GB-FTS-183949`
  - Value: £1,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Ad Hoc Taxis (active)
  - Award id: `002652-2022-4`
  - Supplier(s): **Alan Thomson t/a Alan Thomson Taxis, Chester Paul Greig, Ian MacMillan t/a Marleigh Hire (+4 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-42563`, `GB-FTS-183946`, `GB-FTS-183951`, `GB-FTS-183941`, `GB-FTS-42567`, `GB-FTS-183943`, `GB-FTS-183944`
  - Value: £1,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (4)
- **Contract:** Additional Support Needs Buses (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,000,000
  - Signed Date: 27/01/2022

- **Contract:** Additional Support Needs Taxis (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,000,000
  - Signed Date: 27/01/2022

- **Contract:** Ad Hoc Buses (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,000,000
  - Signed Date: 27/01/2022

- **Contract:** Ad Hoc Taxis (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,000,000
  - Signed Date: 27/01/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002652-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-01-31T10:54:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T07:22:37.472Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-029b46