Germany – Public road transport services – KEXI On-Demand-Verkehr Neustadt a.d.Do.

The Landkreis Kelheim intends, as the contracting authority and responsible authority pursuant to Article 8(1) and (3) of the BayÖPNVG in conjunction with Section 8a of the PBefG and Article 2(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007, to award a public service contract (PSC) for the provision of demand-responsive transport services in local public transport. The subject of the contract is the operation of an on-demand service in the form of scheduled demand-responsive transport pursuant to Section 44 of the PBefG in the service areas of Landkreis Kelheim, Pförring and Münchsmünster as specified in the tender documents. The type, scope and quality of the transport services to be provided, as well as the further requirements for the provision of services, are set out in the tender documents. The contract period is three years from the start of operations. The contracting authority has an extension option of up to two further years in accordance with the tender documents. The contractor must have the necessary permit for the carriage of persons by the time operations commence. The public service contract provides, within the framework of the contractual change and adjustment regulations, the possibility of adapting the transport offer to changed transport needs, economic framework conditions, the respective valid local transport plans, as well as to technical, ecological and other relevant developments. Possible adjustments concern in particular the spatial and temporal scope of the transport services, the service areas and stops, the service times, the design of the offer, the fares, as well as the vehicle and quality standards. As a result, the scope of the transport services to be provided may both increase and decrease. The type, scope, conditions and limits of the permissible changes are regulated in the tender documents. The overall character of the contract remains unaffected thereby. In 2025, the route length per journey in the KEXI on-demand transport in the city of Neustadt a.d.Donau was 4.0 km. The journey took an average of 5.9 minutes.