ID 5263589 - PSNI - Provision of National Driver Offender Re-Training Schemes

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) seek a Contractor to facilitate the Delivery of Driver Educational Course Programmes on behalf of PSNI across Northern Ireland. The Contractor will be required to deliver the following Educational Courses, presently: National Safe and Considerate Driving Course (SCD); National Speed Awareness Courses (NSAC); National What’s Driving us (WDU); and National Rider Risk Assessment Course (NRRAC) will be considered. Please refer to the Specification of Requirements for further information.

Total Quantity or Scope

Additional information: Contract Value. The figure indicated in Section II 1.5 is an estimated contract value and represents the costs to deliver the scheme but does not include fees payable to NDORS or Road Safety Partnership. All fees are payable by the course participant. This value reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account potential optional extension periods. This figure does not however take into account the application of indexation or increases to charges due to increases in the Real Living Wage. Neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. The Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Economic Operators remain responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by them or by any third party acting under instructions from the Economic Operator in connection with taking part in this procurement process regardless of whether such costs arise as a consequence, directly or indirectly of any amendments made to the procurement documents by the Contracting Authority at any time. No legally binding contract shall arise and an Economic Operator shall have no legitimate expectation that a contract will be entered into until such time as entry into the Contract has been confirmed by the Contracting Authority. Economic Operators should note that all dates time periods and figures in relation to values and volumes specified in this notice and the procurement documents are approximate only and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change any or all of them.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

An initial contract period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to a further 24 months.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 80411000 - Driving-school services
• 80411200 - Driving lessons
• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80330000 - Safety education services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with the tender documentation. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it. is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance can result in the Contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of three years from the date of issue. The Authority expressly reserves the rights: (I)not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; (II) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition; (III) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the services covered by this notice; and (IV) to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.