New agreement for vehicle lease and fleet management

New agreement consolidates the previous two into one.

An agreement has been reached that will see the public sector benefit from vehicle lease and management solutions. 

The agreement, which consolidates the recently expired vehicle lease and fleet management agreements into one single agreement that also gives the public sector a choice of more suppliers, is now live. 

The previous vehicle lease agreement expired at the end of last week, while the fleet management agreement that existed before, expired in November 2013. 

By developing the new agreement, a number of needs were addressed, including providing a greater level of transparency of costs to drive through saving initiatives, and a clear and concise route to market. 

Because of today’s development, public sector organisations and Government departments can gain access to a number of lease vehicles. 

Services associated with fleet management and the likes of service maintenance and repair, sale and lease-back, along with salary sacrifice are also available through the new vehicle lease and fleet management services agreement. 

The new agreement provides the lease of vehicles and associated services and fleet management across three lots.

Benefiting customers by giving them an option to nominate a preferred local dealership for delivery as well as giving the ability to reduce pricing through participation in eAuctions, the vehicles available to the various organisations are passenger or commercial vehicles, 4x4s, buses, coaches, trailers, municipal and converted vehicles and those that are alternatively fuelled, which includes hybrid and electric vehicles. 

Customers will have vital access to technology including telematics in order to improve fleet utilisation and manage risk effectively, while they will be able to improve fleet performance and costs thanks to both audits and fleet optimisation. 

Crucially, the new agreement supports the Clean Energy Efficient Vehicles Directive, which aims to contribute to the EU objectives of increasing energy efficiency in the transport sector and protecting the environment by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollution from vehicles. 

Through this Directive, the results will bring long-term benefits around stimulating the market for cleaner vehicles and helping to create economies of scale in their production, therefore lowering the cost of these technologies and facilitating improvements in the emissions performance of the entire vehicle fleet. 

Giving simple vehicle acquisition, the new agreement lasts for three years, to May 2018. 

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