National Driver Offender Re-Training Schemes for West Yorkshire Police
The Association of Chief Police Offices (ACPO) with a view to furthering road safety encourages Police Forces to provide National Driver Offender Retraining Schemes (NDORS) as a voluntary alternative to court and prosecution to offending motorists who would benefit from improving their driving skills and road awareness following police intervention.
United Kingdom-Wakefield: Education and training services
2013/S 214-372486
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
West Yorkshire Police
Procurement, Laburnum Road
For the attention of: Lynne Allen
WF1 3QP Wakefield
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: lynne.allen@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Further information can be obtained from: Driver Offender Re-Training Schemes for West Yorkshire Police
Internet address: www.bluelight.gov.uk
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: Driver Offender Re-Training Schemes for West Yorkshire Police
Internet address: www.bluelight.gov.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Driver Offender Re-Training Schemes for West Yorkshire Police
Internet address: www.bluelight.gov.uk
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: West Yorkshire.
NUTS code UKE
ACPO and NDORS have established a UK National Model Programme which the successful service provider(s) must deliver and conform to at all times, ensuring that the Schemes operated on behalf of all Police Forces of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland conform to one common standard.
West Yorkshire Police (WYP) are seeking a fully managed service, excluding venues, of NDORS from the course bookings to the course delivery and notification back to the relevant Force of each course outcome. The successful service provider will reimburse WYP a specific fee at the rate identified by WYP per course, further details will be provided at the tender stage.
The courses will be delivered from venues strictly identified by WYP. The service provider will be expected to make use of each classroom provided by WYP to deliver three courses per day. The service provider will ensure that courses are provided in the evenings as well as weekends. The successful service provider will reimburse WYP a specific fee at the rate identified by WYP per course, further details will be provided at the tender stage.
The successful supplier will manage the availability of instructors/training staff to deliver the NDORS courses to the NDORS training standards. It is anticipated over the life of the initial two years of the contract that West Yorkshire Police will introduce their own suitable qualified instructors/training staff to deliver the NDORS courses. These staff may be training and work alongside the trainers supplied by the service provider.
West Yorkshire Police (WYP) experience in excess of 100,000 driving offences each year. With a view to furthering road safety the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) are encouraging Police Forces to provide the National Driver Offender Retraining Schemes (NDORS) as a voluntary alternative to court and prosecution to offending motorists who would benefit from improving their driving skills and road awareness following police intervention. Further details with regard to NDORS can be found as separate attachments in addition to the link below.
http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/uniformed/2012/201207UONDORSvAPP.pdf
The Service Provider will be expected to deliver each current and any future driving scheme under the NDORS programme to the ACPO specification. Current NDORS Guidance documents are attached for your information.
The courses in West Yorkshire Police currently include:
– National Speed Awareness
– National Driver Alertness
– Ride
– Driving For Change
– What’s Driving Us?
It is imperative that the Service Provider will be able to deliver the number of course completions required below*. The figures below are based on the anticipated increase in referrals following trend analysis over the last four years.
Speed Awareness – 100,000
Driver Alertness – 1,000
Ride – 500
Driving For Change – 500
What’s Driving Us? – 20,000
*PLEASE NOTE: The numbers stated above are based on indicative estimates and are in no way a guarantee of future business or commitment by West Yorkshire Police.
All aspects of the course and driver administration, i.e. vehicles, suitably qualified instructors, secure data transfer, client invoicing, etc, (with the exception of the venues) must be provided and managed by the Service Provider. The Service Provider must also ensure that all clients complete a course within 120 days from the date of their offence.
Please note that the successful service provider and their staff will be subject to Force vetting prior to award of this contract. West Yorkshire Police require Non Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Level 1 to be successfully passed before each employee of the service provided will be granted access to Police premises or work in the back office function. Should any individual not pass the required vetting an alternative employee/trainer must be provided.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulation 2006 (SI 2006/246) may apply in respect of the award of any Contract and that for the purposes of the Regulations the undertaking shall transfer to the Contractor on the commencement of any Contract.
Please note that there is currently a service provider responsible for the provision of NDORS to WYP, therefore TUPE may apply. Further detail will be sought and provided at the ITT stage. We advise that you seek your own legal advice in relation to TUPE.
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Range: between 35 000 000 and 50 000 000 GBP
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Section IV: Procedure
Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure: Due to the urgent nature of this service an accelerated procedure has been chosen.
Section VI: Complementary information
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Internet address: www.bluelight.gov.uk
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:1.11.2013