Decision - Home to School Transport - procurement

Brighton and Hove Children, Young People & Skills Committee Decided 7 Mar 2022 approved GET /api/coverage

Decision maker

Children, Young People & Skills Committee

Report author

Mia Bryden

Published

9 Mar 2022

Reference

6538

As published

the council's own words, unedited

A progress report on the re-procurement of the Home to School Transport service - responding to the consultation; recommended procurement option, and high level specification

RESOLVED – That the Children, Young People and Skills Committee: 1. Note the progress report on the Home to School Transport (HTST) Service. 2. Endorse the re-procurement of a contract for home to school transport for pupils with special educational needs and other transport for vulnerable children and adults on behalf of social care teams, for a term of four years from 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2027. 3. Endorse the option of an amended Dynamic Purchasing System, without reverse auction bidding, tendered on a route-by-route basis. 4. Grant delegated authority to the Executive Director of Families, Children & Learning to carry out the procurement and award of the contract referred to in Paragraph 2.2 of the report including the award and letting of the framework agreement. A progress report will be shared at each Committee meeting. 5. Endorse expectations that Operators pay (and verify that they pay) their staff the living wage, where they directly employ them (see 14.19 of the report).

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The report provides a service update on home to school transport, including route performance, passenger wellbeing, training, staffing, budgets and independent travel training. It also sets out PaCC’s views on re-procuring the service after August 2023, supporting a carefully managed Dynamic Purchasing System rather than a lowest-bidder or reverse-EBay approach.

Recommendation

To note the service update and continue developing the Dynamic Purchasing System route for the post-August 2023 home to school transport service, subject to sign-off, while protecting safeguarding, continuity, service quality and suitable support for children and young people.

Financial impact

No specific budget amount stated; the report notes pressure from passenger demand, operator costs and potential COVID-19 surges, and suggests considering a reserve and temporary in-house emergency cover.

Ward affected

city-wide

Decision maker

Children & Young People’s Education & Skills Committee

Date in document

7 Mar 2022

Stakeholders named

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children and young people using home to school transportparents and carersPaCCschools and collegestransport operators and vehicle crewsBrighton & Hove

Next steps

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Continue working with Procurement Board members to take the Dynamic Purchasing System route forward, subject to sign-off.
Develop contract requirements covering safeguarding, training, service standards, sanctions and the ability to terminate or reallocate unsafe or unsatisfactory arrangements.
Plan communications, meet-and-greet introductions and confirmation of September arrangements before the end of August.
Continue developing independent travel training and explore mileage payments and personal travel budgets.
Continue monitoring busy routes, passenger wellbeing, satisfaction and service performance.

Precedents

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