NEWS
GENERAL
A LESSON IN PARKING
With more students owning cars and the competition for space ever-increasing, guidelines are needed to ensure that parking on university and college grounds is well managed. There are often complex issues involved, with politics, and the conflicting interests of several stakeholders, all adding to a potentially difficult situation. Tension is added by the view commonly-held among staff, students and visitors that parking on university grounds should be free.
Collection of Unpaid Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates & Unpaid Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) Debts
Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) is leading on a joint procurement with Swale Borough Council and Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (the Authorities) to tender for bailiff services. MBC is conducting a restricted tender process and invites expressions of interest from bailiffs with a proven track record of providing similar services, to receive pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) documents. The contract opportunity will be divided into two lots with suppliers able to bid for one or both lots.
Lot 1: The collection of unpaid council tax and non-domestic rates for all of the Authorities.
Lot 2: Unpaid Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) Debts for all of the Authorities.
The contracts are expected to commence at the end of July 2013 and will run for three years with an option to extend for a further two years based on satisfactory performance. The BIP Solutions e-Source system will be used to facilitate this tender process. Further information and the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) document can be obtained from:
www.delta-esourcing.com All communications should be made via this system.
1. Go to the Home Page 2. Find Supplier Functions 3. Double Click Response Manager 4. Enter Personal Contact Details 5. Enter Organisation Details 6. Enter Access Code 9PSB3VP3NP in the appropriate box
7. Enter verification code (As displayed) 8. Tick Terms and Conditions 9. Press Signup 10. Go to Step Three - Confirmation 11. Open the tender box ‘1700 Bailiff Services’ and upload the documents to your own PC system.
Supplier registration is free of charge. If you experience problems, then please contact the Delta helpdesk via email:
helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com or call 0845 2707050 for further assistance.
The PQQ and supporting documents must be returned before 15:00 on Friday 31st May 2013.
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Measures to address these issues, and to create a template of good practice, are the drivers behind the British Parking Association’s (BPA) latest guidelines, The Higher and Further Education Parking Charter. This targets both managers of university and college facilities and car park operators, and it aims to strike the right balance between being fair to all users and making sure that facilities are managed effectively for the good of everyone. The BPA is hopeful that the majority of parking managers and operators at educational institutes
will sign up to the charter. The document says: ‘We believe in raising standards in parking management to deliver a professional service to the public. Providing, managing and charging for parking at higher and further education facilities needs to be seen in the context of delivering a better and fairer service to users. ‘The BPA aims to increase public confidence in parking management through the setting and raising of standards across the sector, believing that providing, managing and charging for parking at higher and further education facilities needs to be seen in the context of delivering a better and fairer service to users.
‘While many of the people attending these education facilities, either as students, staff or visitors, expect car parking to be free, the limits on space, costs involved and increasing demand for spaces means that car parking needs to be managed and enforced properly. Often the most effective way to do this is by charging for parking.’
NEW RULES FOR DISABLED DRIVERS
A design initiative combined with a piece of government legislation are addressing the problems caused by the misuse of blue badges. In his address to Parkex delegates last month, under secretary for transport Norman Baker highlighted the changes in blue badge enforcement, the Blue Badge Improvement Service, and the extension of enforcement capabilities introduced through the reform of disabled parking, currently making its way through parliament. A new, hard-to-fake badge and a national database of registered blue badge holders will help enforcement officers to identify fraudsters and, by extending powers of enforcement, local authorities will be able to catch and prosecute a larger percentage of people abusing the blue badge scheme. The reform bill is expected to become law later this year.
www.britishparking.co.uk
ROB WILSON / SHUTTERSTOCK
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