Contract award · 9 Mar 2021
SOL - Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV)
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull awarded “SOL - Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV)” to Richmond Design & Marketing Ltd for £250k on 9 Mar 2021. Awarded without open competition.
No competition- Buyer
- Metropolitan Borough of Solihull · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Richmond Design & Marketing Ltd SME
- Value
- £250,000
- Contract date
- 9 Mar 2021
- Published
- 9 Mar 2021
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Motor vehicles (CPV 34100000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 004721-2021 on Find a Tender
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Description
SMBC wish to purchase one Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) capable of being driven both manually, i.e. by traditional steering wheel and foot pedals, and autonomously. The vehicle must be suitable for operation on the public highway, so as to maximise potential future application. The vehicle must be able to carry ten or more persons, including the safety driver, simultaneously so as to fit the core project outcome of contributing to the demonstration of autonomy in mass people and / or goods movement. Alongside the purchase of the vehicle, appropriate levels of on-going project delivery support must be provided so as to maximise delivery of the intended use. Both the vehicle and the supplier must possess and be able to demonstrate a proven track record in the movement of people by fully autonomous means, as the intended use is for multiple use case application across varying locations, not technology development. The project delivery period is for a minimum of two years from contract start in April 2021. The vehicle will be loaned out to key regional stakeholders to deliver defined use case applications with the ambition of increasing regional understanding and awareness of the technology, helping the authority apply learning to future highways, residential, commercial and transport interchange infrastructure development.
About the supplier
- Richmond Design & Marketing Ltd: every public contract they have won.