Purpose

Bikeability funding is distributed annually to local highway authorities by the executive agency Active Travel England (ATE). Grant recipients can choose to run Bikeability training or can choose to appoint training provider(s) to manage cycle instructors on their behalf.

LCC opted to appoint training providers to deliver the training on its behalf and ran an Above Threshold Open Procedure under Schedule 3 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, in 2023 to establish a multi-provider, multi-lotted framework for the periods 2024/2025, 2025/2026, 2026/2027 and 2027/2028. The framework had an initial period of 12 months running from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025, with an option to extend beyond the initial term to a maximum of a further 36 months, in tranches of 12 months.

LCC is exercising the permissible option to extend the framework agreement for a period of 12 months. The extension will run from 1st April 2026 to 31st March 2027.

Decision

John Davies, Head of Service Highways Network Management, on behalf of Matt Townsend, Director of Highways and Transport, took a decision to extend the framework for the Provision of Bikeability Training in Lancashire. The extension will commence 1st April 2026 and run to 31st March 2027 as permitted in the current terms and conditions of the framework, of which the initial periods are due to expire 31st March 2026. The extension is complaint with the Council Standing Orders and the Public Contract Regulations 2015.