Security Services - Taxi Marshals

Manchester Specialist Markets is a section within Manchester Markets that operates several specialist markets in Manchester City Centre. Our markets occupy temporary sites and vary in themes, locations, size and duration. The portfolio for this framework includes Piccadilly Street food market, various pop-up markets in the City Centre and the large multi-site Christmas market. The requirement for each market varies, but most of our operations require both day and night time security. This is a multi‑site, year‑round framework with variable deployment levels based on market activity and annual planning cycles.

Manchester hosts and promotes a vibrant annual programme of arts, cultural, sports, community, business, civic and commercial events of local, national and international standing. Indicative core annual events may include Manchester Day, Manchester's Christmas Parade, New Years Eve Fireworks, St Georges Day Parade, Chinese New Year, Remembrance Sunday and a range of other events during the term of the Framework. The City Council may also be asked to host or manage additional one-off major events. This framework agreement is for the provision of suitably qualified and experienced companies to provide a range of security, stewarding and crowd management services at indoor and outdoor events, organised by or in partnership with the City Council's Events Team within the local authority boundaries of Manchester.  This is a flexible, single provider framework to support a rapidly changing event landscape across the city.

The purpose of this service is to seek the provision of a Uniformed Taxi Marshal Service that will operate every weekend in the City Centre of Manchester from designated Taxi Ranks. The service will form a key component of delivering a safer City Centre environment.