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The Warwickshire County Council is establishing a dynamic purchasing system to secure the supply of a suite of road traffic surveys. Through this system suppliers will be able to provide automatic traffic count, junction turning count, active travel, automatic number plate recognition and parking surveys across the county’s highway network. Each survey type is designed to run for specific durations—two‑week periods for traffic counts, weekday spikes for turning, active travel and parking surveys, and compact intervals for ANPR—providing comprehensive data on vehicle volumes, speeds, classifications, origin‑destination journeys, emissions, and parking usage.

Operators elected to the DPS will register with the council’s free e‑tendering platform, In‑Tend, with all communication funneled through the system’s correspondence function. Upon successful admission and a 30‑day initial period, suppliers will receive notifications of contracting opportunities and may choose to bid on the tasks that suit their capabilities. The system is structured as a recurring procurement with a four‑year validity and the possibility of renewal, while options and variants are excluded.

All surveys must conform to UK road safety and data protection standards.

Southampton City Council is procuring an Innovative Platform for Home Based Services, a framework that covers a range of care and support activities delivered by multiple providers under a Light Touch Regime. The contract is divided into five distinct lots – Home Care Services, Live‑in Services, Continuing Health Care and Complex Care for Adults and Children, Bridging Services, and Extra Care – each intended to operate for an initial ten‑year period with a renewable extension of up to an additional ten years. The platform is to be regularly reviewed and revised by the council, with no limit on the number of providers that may be appointed provided they satisfy the council’s award criteria and minimum financial and technical requirements.

Providers may express interest to join the platform at any time during its lifetime and can submit the required online questionnaire through the designated procurement portal. The contract is set to commence on 6 January 2024, with Lot 1 ending on 4 March 2034 and the remaining lots concluding on 4 June 2043, subject to the council’s discretion to modify or terminate the platform. The contract incorporates cumulative annual rate and population increases of 1.5%.

The London Borough of Barnet has opened a Dynamic Purchasing System for hired passenger transport in support of statutory and discretionary policies for passengers with special educational needs and disabilities. Under the DPS, the council will procure a range of transport services and accompanying assistants to provide mobility support to eligible individuals across the borough.

The procurement covers a broad spectrum of vehicles, divided into eleven separate lots that include cars, estate cars, medium and large MPVs, minibuses of varying seating capacities, coaches, and wheelchair‑adapted vehicles. Each lot is matched to specific vehicle types and specialisms, ensuring that transport solutions are tailored to the diverse needs of the passenger group, from education transport with special educational needs to adult day‑care centre services. Operators wishing to supply these services may join the system at any time upon satisfying the entry criteria outlined in the tender documents.

The DPS is established for an initial term of 48 months with an option to extend for a further 48 months, allowing a maximum contractor tenure of 96 months. While the monetary value attached to each lot is estimated at £24,000,000 excluding VAT, price is not the sole award criterion; additional evaluation factors are detailed in the procurement documents. All entrants must meet the specified entry criteria and provide services in accordance with the statutory and discretionary policy requirements.

Hampshire County Council is launching a ten‑year Open Framework for Skills Development, designed to enable the council to respond rapidly to grant and other funding opportunities and deliver training to the public and employees of businesses throughout Hampshire, including Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight, with potential delivery in neighbouring counties such as Wiltshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Surrey and West Sussex. The framework, governed under a Light Touch Regime, will remain open for new applications from the day of publication and will be divided into seven distinct lots, each catering to a specific type of training provider: further education colleges, private sector training suppliers, higher education institutions, academy schools and other educational establishments, voluntary or charitable organisations, other public sector training organisations, and employer representative groups.

Providers will be required to meet the minimum criteria set out in the Invitation to Tender in order to join the framework. Once accepted, call‑offs will be awarded through a variety of procedures – mini‑competitions, e‑auctions for price‑only awards, and, where necessary, direct awards – and may need to commence quickly to satisfy the timing constraints of the funding sources. The framework will serve as a partnership mechanism to commission both current and future skills‑based initiatives that align with local and national priorities.

All awards will be governed by the specified CPV codes and must execute delivery within Hampshire and its surrounding counties, ensuring that training programmes are delivered in accordance with the council’s standards and the contractual regime.

The tender seeks to provide comprehensive Road Transport Services for radioactive waste, including associated ocean freight management, to support disposal and logistics activities within the UK nuclear industry. These services are required by LLW Repository Ltd trading as Nuclear Waste Services and its joint partners in the contract, and they will be delivered through a designated Driver and Provider System (DPS) that allows the contracting authorities to award work to qualified transport providers.

The arrangement is a 10‑year contract that will be exercised through repeated calls for competition. Each call will evaluate proposals on a blend of technical and commercial criteria, the balance of which will vary according to the complexity of the work. Technical assessment will consider service proposals, personnel capability, risk management and scheduling, while commercial assessment will examine price, commercial terms and social value. Providers must meet all regulatory safety and operational standards for the transport of nuclear materials.