Provision of Road Passenger Transport Services for Children and Adults DPS
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council · Yorkshire · up to £24,000,000
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What the buyer wants
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council seeks suppliers for a Dynamic Purchasing System to provide road passenger transport services for children and vulnerable adults, including home to school transport and transport to day centres, with various vehicle types and accessibility requirements across four lots.
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (BMBC) wishes to establish a transport DPS for the provision of passenger transport for children and adults. BMBC has a statutory duty to provide home to school travel arrangements for eligible children to access their education for both SEN and non-SEN children as outlined in the Home to School/college Travel Assistance Policy. The requirement is for a regular home to school transport service during school term time both in the Borough of Barnsley and out of the Borough, which include daily, weekly, fortnightly, or termly single or return journeys
In addition, the Council also provides transport to and from day centres for vulnerable adults who are covered under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 and 1986.
The Providers on this DPS will be required to provide a range of vehicles to deliver the services, from cars to minibuses. There will be a requirement for a number of vehicles to be fitted with appropriate equipment to enable passengers to access/egress the vehicle safely and travel safely and comfortably.
The procurement is being undertaken as an Above Threshold Procurement under the PCR 2015 using a Dynamic Purchasing System.
The DPS will have the following lots:
Lot 1 - SEN / LAC Children: Taxi / MPV / Saloon & driver with or without escort- standard vehicles up to 8 seater.
Lot 2 SEN / LAC Children: Minibus & driver with or without escort - standard minibus vehicles up to 16 seater.
Lot 3 SEN / LAC Children requiring accessible vehicles: Wheelchair accessible vehicles with driver and with or without escort provision.
Lot 4 Vulnerable Adults: Minibus & driver with escort to be provided by the potential provider - standard minibus vehicles and wheelchair accessible minibus vehicles up to 16 seaters. The vulnerable adults may be: Older People (OP), people with Learning Disabilities (LD), or people with Physical Disabilities (PD).
Bidders can apply for any of the lots
How Tenderoo reads it
This is a dynamic purchasing system (a dynamic market under the Procurement Act): suppliers can apply to join at any point while it runs, and work is awarded in rounds to the members. A missed deadline is not the end of it.
The notice reads as suitable for a small or medium-sized firm: the scope, value and requirements are within reach of a business of that size.
Services required
- Taxi services
- Special-purpose road passenger-transport services
- Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver
- Road transport services
- Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
What you will need to show
- Provision of vehicles with appropriate accessibility equipment — Suppliers must provide vehicles equipped to enable safe and comfortable access and travel for passengers, including wheelchair accessible vehicles where required.
- Provision of drivers and escorts as required — Suppliers must provide drivers and, where applicable, escorts to accompany passengers during transport services.
Key facts
- Buyer: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Estimated value: up to £24,000,000
- Deadline: 23 February 2029
- Contract period: 24 February 2029 to 25 February 2029
- Location: Yorkshire
- Published on: Contracts Finder
- First seen by Tenderoo: 26 September 2026
- CPV: 60120000, 60130000, 60170000, 60100000, 60000000
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