DUD-Soft Market Testing for Provision of Driver CPC Training and Licencing

The Council wishes to collect information relating to the provision of Driver CPC Training and Licencing Compliance and help it in determining how the market would respond to a formal competitive tender for provision of services that would deliver the following objectives: •Provision an up to date, modern, and robust, CPC Training •Maximise the opportunity for further scalability, flexibility and development including adding additional modules should the Council consider expansion of further shared working / selling of services Additional information: The Council would like organisations to respond to this soft market test by confirming attendance to a market engagement event at Dudley MBC, Unit 1, Hurst Business Park, Narrow Boat Way, DY5 1UF on 5th August and 19th August by booking a slot from 09:00am to 17:00pm. A limited number of suppliers may be invited to discuss and demonstrate their driver training solutions.

Again, any such dialogue and discussions will not be scored, and will solely be used by the panel to refine the Council's requirements. As stated above, attendance at the market engagement session will have no bearing on any procurement exercise, and will not be scored.

The exercise will not include or preclude any organisation from participating in any future procurement exercise that might subsequently be undertaken. Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : Yes