Decision details

Contract Variation under 10.02.1(a) to the Cycle Training Contract to vary the contract by a further £20,000.

In July 2013, ‘Cycle Instructor’ was chosen from a shortlist of 5 companies to provide cycle training to those who live, work and study in the borough. The contract was initially for three years and was valued at £240,000. This funding was allocated from the LIP and covered school cycle training, one to one cycle training and Dr Bike maintenance sessions.

During this same period the Smarter Travel team was allocated additional funding from TFL to fund further softer cycling measures. These included Enhanced Child Cycling Training and Bikeabilty Plus.

Due to the success of all the Council’s Cycling Services and the increase in funding from TFL for these measures, we varied the cycle training contract value from £240,000 to £450,000 in February 2015.

Further to this as is allowed in the contract we also extended the contract for one year taking it up to August 2017.

We are now in a position where the contract value has been reached and thus we need to raise it by £20,000 to take us to the end of the contract in August 17. This funding is available and is funded by TFL.

We therefore require a further variation of £20,000 which will deliver the remainder of the schools cycle training programme.

The Cycle Training Contract was tendered in 2013 and Cycling Instructor provided the best value for money. The market has not changed within this short space of time so retendering is unlikely to prove cost effective.