Decision details

Joining the National Parking Platform – NOV23/CMDN/62

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Change

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The Cabinet Member approved the decision to: 

 

 

 

1.     Join the National Parking Platform (NPP) to give parking customers the choice of which cashless parking provider they use to pay for their parking by either phone or app.

2.     Enter a contract with the parking providers (currently Pay by Phone, RingGo (EasyPark), APCOA Connect and JustPark) for an initial period of 2 years with an option to automatically extend, after the initial period, for successive periods of 12 months for the purpose of receiving payments from the parking providers, made by Peterborough City Council’s parking customers.  The annual value of the overall contracts is anticipated to be £24,000 per year, being 2.5% of the transaction.  However, this cannot be broken down per provider because it is the motorist who chooses which provider to use to pay for their parking in a Council car park.

3.     Enter into contracts with further parking providers as and when they join the NPP for a term to coincide with the contract period stated at paragraph 2 above.

Reasons for the decision:

It will connect our authority to all participating cashless parking providers at once without the need for complex procurement, giving more choice to the end user. It will allow the Council to provide a better, modern and future proof service at no additional cost.

Alternative options considered:

 

Extend/renew the sole provider agreement with our current provider – this does not offer our end users a choice nor does it promote competition in the market.

 

Procure a new sole provider agreement with another provider – this also does not offer our end users a choice or promote competition.

 

Join the NPP at a later date – a joining fee expected to be around £10,000 will be applicable to local authorities joining after the pilot stage is complete. As our current agreement expires 1st Dec, this is the perfect opportunity to join.

 

 

 

Interests and Nature of Interests Declared:

None.

Background Documents:

National Parking Platform Introductory Pack - 231013 NPP introductory pack.pdf 

 

Letter from Minister for Roads and Transport - 231013 NPP - letter to LAs post launch Chief Exec.pdf 

 

Publication date: 30/11/2023

Date of decision: 30/11/2023

Effective from: 06/12/2023

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