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Tendering and Contracting

4 - 6 June 2024

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Contracts are an essential tool for a PTA to get a PTO or any other service providers to deliver good transport and mobility services. This training looks at different contracting models based on competitive tendering.

This training aims at addressing general considerations and high-level discussion on contracting and tendering. It will help professionals reflect on their general practice and approach of contracting.

This training is mainly focused on the international context and different models of contracting, but this training is open to any other professionals would like to gain some key understanding of contracting in the competitive tendering context.

Reach your objectives

  • Broaden your knowledge on institutional and regulatory framework of public transport
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the Route tendering and Network tendering including the roles and competences of various actors, risks and responsibilities sharing between authority and operator, quality incentives in contracts, etc.
  • Discuss during case studies the lessons learnt from these models of organisation: success factors and limitations

This training will teach you…

This training gives an opportunity to discuss various ways of organising the provision of public transport services and will help you to reflect and constitute an opinion on topics such as:
  • How do the roles of public transport authorities vary between countries and regions in their relationship with public transport operators?
  • What are the various forms of contracting used in public transport?
  • What are main challenges facing transport authorities for the future of contracting?
  • What does it take to organise a competitive tendering procedure for public transport services?
  • Should operators or the transport authority plan public transport services?

Who is it for?

  • Professionals interested in obtaining a wider perspective on alternative ways to organise the provision of public transport services and on how these services are contracted in other cities and countries.
  • Professionals eager to develop their understanding of public transport service contracting, competitive tendering and quality management therein
  • The course is adapted to experienced professionals but also to newcomers in the sector and welcomes participants from local transport authorities, public transport operators, the supply industry, and regulatory bodies.
  • The course is suitable for participants from companies worldwide

NB: This course is suitable for those who are fluent or have a high level in English.

A top level methodology

  • Participate in interactive plenary sessions which includes an introduction and presentation from the course leaders and the trainer, followed by an open discussion with participants
  • Learn from skilful trainers
  • Share your knowledge and experience with other participants
  • Discuss real life examples and lessons learned from different models of organisation
  • Challenge your thinking on the way to organise public transport services

UITP Training Programmes and all related processes are certified for ISO29990:2010 – the standard for learning services for non-formal education and training.

Inspiring trainers

Our trainers are experienced professionals in the fields of public transport service contracting, competitive tendering, quality management and regulatory affairs.

Programme

Welcome, objective and introduction to the programme

09:30 – 10:00
Public Transport actors: types of authorities, their role and competences
  • Options for the allocation of decision-making in public transport between various actors: Strategic –Tactical – Operational levels
  • Potential roles for competition, concepts of competitive tendering in public transport
  • Type of contracts, levels of risk and sharing of risks and responsibilities between operator and authority
  • Overview of organizational forms in local public transport: including route tendering, network tendering, but also direct award and deregulation

Break

11:30 – 12:00
Regulatory and institutional framework (the European legislation) EU affairs: Focus on Regulation 1370/2007

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00
  • Presentation of the essentials of the case
  • Main results and challenges

Break

15:30 – 16:00
  • Clarification questions
  • How to tailorize route tendering? Discussion on strategic choices
  • Transition issues: how to implement route tendering?
  • Current challenges

Trainers

Didier VAN DE VELDE

Director at inno-V and Researcher
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Peter DE WINTER

Senior Project Leader
Vervoerregio Amsterdam (PTA), Netherlands

Pia Preibisch Behrens

Chief Advisor, Contracts, Traffic and Planning at Movia Traffik, Copenhagen

Christophe PHILIPPE

European and Legal Expert – Seconded by OTW
UITP, Belgium

Saman TONDNEVIS

Director – Buses and Tram
Skånetrafiken, Sweden

Emmanuel DOMMERGUES

Head of Mobility Governance Unit
UITP, Belgium

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