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"Is your transportation program cost effective?" Measuring the cost
of school bus transportation services and determining whether costs can be reduced
or if resource investments need to be made is critical to properly allocating limited
school district resources.
For school districts, untangling the influence of regular education; special education;
non-public education; athletic and field trips on the cost of student transportation
has to be done but can be difficult and confusing. For fleet operations, calculating
true maintenance costs, overhead allocations, and internal labor costs can be a daunting
and time-consuming effort. MPS has the tools to help you understand student and school
bus transportation costs on a unit basis in a way that will allow you make better
decisions on how to provide transportation services economically and efficiently.
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"Should we contract our transportation program?" is a frequent question
asked by school boards and administrators struggling with tight budgets. However,
answering this question requires more than a simple comparative cost analysis. Understanding
the operational tradeoffs of outsourcing or privatizing student transportation is
at least as important as knowing if cost savings can be realized.
MPS provides school districts with an outsourcing analysis service that helps to
quantify both cost and service effects of outsourcing. MPS develops a long term projection
of costs that will ensure that the potential for a one year windfall does not result
in a bad long term decision. In addition, we will help you understand the impact
of outsourcing on how you provide services.
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Student Transportation Bid Specifications
Developing bid specifications for transportation services can be a difficult,
time consuming, and frustrating experience. The question always lingers, "How
do we get what we really want from a vendor at a fair price?" Experience shows
that ordinary bid documents pulled from peer operations or Internet searches cannot
sufficiently describe the unique aspects of your operation that are so critical to
successfully outsourcing school bus services.
MPS can help you develop a set of bid specifications that will clearly and concisely
summarize the demands of your transportation program and the desired output of the
solicitation process. The goal of the specifications is to develop a document that
establishes a fair business partnership, anticipates potential changes in service
requirements, and maintains a necessary degree of flexibility. An added benefit to
MPS' participation in the process is the elimination of any concerns about potential
bias with the offerer, leading to greater participation by and more competition among
possible vendors.
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Student Transportation Contract Auditing
How do you get the most from your school bus services contractor? What is the
best way to know that you are getting what you paid for? At MPS we understand that
maintaining control of the business partnership after outsourcing all or part of
your transportation service is often both time consuming and can be a distraction
from focusing on your core business. Our staff members use their former industry
experience as transportation directors, contract managers for national transportation
companies and project managers for transportation consulting firms to assist you
in examining, evaluating, and overseeing the work performed your transportation vendor.
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"Should we outsource our maintenance program?" is a question being asked
by an increasing number of school districts. MPS provides an outsourcing analysis
service that helps to quantify both cost and service effects of outsourcing. MPS
develops a long term projection of costs that will ensure that the potential for
a one year windfall does not result in a bad long term decision. In addition, we
will help you understand the impact of outsourcing on how you provide services.
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