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SOL30057 - Market Engagement - Taxi Services for Solihull Childrens Services

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Solihull MBC is inviting interested taxi service providers to engage with this questionnaire to help us develop our future tendering strategy. Aligned with our practice framework, Connecting Families, we aim to enable families to thrive and young people to be independent. This includes supporting families to provide their own transport when this is needed. However, on the occasions when this is not possible, Children’s Services shall arrange safe and appropriate transport so that children, young people and their parents / carers can be where they need to be. This can be: - Planned regular journeys for children (e.g. school, college, alternative provision) - Unplanned occasional journeys for children or relatives (e.g. contact meetings) Children’s Social Work teams arrange regular journeys per term‑time with half of those journeys requiring an escort, provided by the taxi firm. On occasions we may require a specialist taxi vehicle to meet needs. Except for one case, these journeys were to or from educational settings. In addition, there are ad‑hoc journeys for children—and occasionally for a parent carer—which may involve travel to schools or other destinations.

Classification

  • CPV60120000 — Taxi services

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
SOL30057
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
Yes
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Communication

Future Notice Date
1 May 2026, 23:59

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Starts
31 May 2026, 00:00
Ends
31 May 2028, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
60120000
Description
Taxi services

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKG32
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Description
Where competition is identified following this market engagement any dates and service requirements may be subject to change. A questionnaire is available through the Atamis portal. To register your interest and access the questionnaire, please follow this link to the Atamis portal: Atamis - https://solihull.my.site.com/s/ & Supplier_User_Guide.pdf . The project reference is SOL30057 and the closing date for submission of the completed questionnaire is: 12:00hrs 11th March 2026
Due
11 Mar 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Documents

Entry 1
Id
012607-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
11 Feb 2026, 17:02
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Id
GB-PPON-PGWC-7578-LYDG

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PGWC-7578-LYDG

Address

Street Address
The Council House, Manor Square
Locality
Solihull
Postal Code
B91 3QB
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKG32

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Solihull · UKG32 · B91 3QB · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG32 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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