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I think it actually Europewide. That is why most Councils now have a framework. You have to be on the framework to be able to tender.

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Grandad,

I think you have your wires crossed a bit here Skippy. The company do not have enough drivers so how can drivers transfer?

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Grandad,

Framework is the word I could not remember, in it, it clearly states any owner tendering and winning contracts, must employ the drivers, and escorts if they are required, and must be able to show that council they are employing them.
Our council makes sure drivers, and or escorts are employed by any company that has contracts

That maybe in the framework agreement for your area but it certainly isn't in every Council's framework agreement. It certainly isn't in ours. If it was, I wouldn't have had the TUPE problem at Christmas.

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Grandad,

Grandad, I would get onto your council and ask them to try and keep up, the framework is a national scheme and possibly a European one as well.

The tendering framework is an EU-wide framework so that companies from anywhere in Europe can bid for work anywhere.

Kent CC delayed initiating the EU framework for quite a while to the benefit of their own Kent Top Temps Ltd company until they were sussed.

I'd suggest that employing "self-employed sub-contractors" would suffice otherwise no taxis in Europe would be permitted to tender for work!

What has happened recently to alter things is that the DfT have "revisited" the tendering guidelines to be "more in line2 (but still not fully complying with) with EU law and test cases regarding entry level requirements for transport operators in an attempt to de-fuse the time bomb of CT operations and the huge subsidies they get from all sources then compete with bus and taxi operators with "unlicenced" drivers, hence the possible change from D to D1 and the requirement for driver CPC.

CT groups are no longer allowed to tender competitively for contracts, it's unfair competition. At blood y last!

Linky here: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j ... 3673,d.d2k

I can't see anything that states that CT groups can't be used though.

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Grandad,

Can you show me a document that states that drivers and escorts must be employed. I would love to be able to show this to the County Council because This is what we do with our drivers and escorts but we seem to be in a minority of one.

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Grandad,

Ironically this advert for staff for a contractor is the same council who - when i won a 2nd contract - wouldnt let me have a car do it that i didnt own, so they gave it to the next lowest (i.e. dearer) bidder....

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