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by Karen Miles • The Government last week offered private transport oper ators more business as it proposed to put the management of thousands of municipal vehicles on the market.
In a move that opens up a second wave of Compulsory Competitive Tendering, it said from 1 April 1995 local authorities will not be able to manage vehicle fleets using their own staff unless they have won the work in "fair and open competition".
Although the proposals will involve mainly cars and vans, the procurement and disposal of vehicles, the operational plan ning—including arranging servicing and repair, the planning of fuel requirements, vehicle cleaning and depot management— and the licensing and insuring of vehicles and monitoring of drivers will be up for grabs.
These proposals do not include "hometo-school" transport or police or fire authority vehicles.
The proposals would give private transport contractors a second bite of the municipal cherry. They won an estimated £300 million of business in the refuse collection market when the Ll billion a year business was pushed out to tender as part of the Government's first wave of CCT in the late 1980s. The second round of tendering for this business is expected to start in earnest next year.
The controversy continues over the level of pay and conditions new employers must acquire when taking on municipal employees.
The Government says until a European Union directive on Acquired Rights is changed to exclude contracting out new employers will have to honour existing conditions, including redundancy settlements.