SOL30057 - Market Engagement - Taxi Services for Solihull Childrens Services
Solihull Metropolitan Borough CouncilEstimated Value
Up to £0
Deadline
Not specified
Published
11 February 2026
Type
Not specified
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.
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.
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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.
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Likely incumbents
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- 1
Randstad Solutions LTD
£464,000
total awarded
- 2
Solihull Parent Carer Voice CIC
1 contract wonlatest 2 Oct 2026£106,984
total awarded
- 3
Every Life Matters
1 contract wonlatest 29 Sept 2026£48,600
total awarded
- 4
ASA Travel Ltd
£2m
total awarded
- 5
Hollywood Travel Ltd
£2m
total awarded
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Solihull Metropolitan Borough CouncilKey Dates
Published
11 February 2026
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Notice type
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