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Marie Curie switches to Leasedrive
21 September 2005

Leasedrive Group, one of the largest independent privately-owned vehicle management groups in the UK, has won the tender to provide a contract hire service to cancer charity, Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Commercial director, Roddy Graham said: “This proved a tough tendering process which was managed by CY Associates purchasing consultancy on behalf of Marie Curie. The process was extremely thorough and detailed. We are delighted to have prevailed thanks to the professionalism of our staff, the quality of our response and the benefits of our totally integrated online fleet management system.

“We are currently managing out the existing contract hire fleet through RunOut:Manager, part of the suite of solutions available through Drive:Manager.  As vehicles come off fleet, they are being replaced on a mixed basis – either contract hire or contract purchase.  The contract covers 175 vehicles, which will now be sourced from Peugeot and Skoda.”

Tracy Henderson, central administrations manager at Marie Curie Cancer Care commented: “Besides the contract hire service provision, Leasedrive will also be assisting us with our duty of care responsibilities by providing a service to manage our driver declaration and driving licence monitoring programme.  Additionally, we have retained Leasedrive to work with our risk advisors to provide an appropriate duty of care solution.”

Leasedrive will be managing the contract using its bespoke, state-of-the-art online fleet management system, Drive:Manager, and overseeing the charity’s duty of care responsibilities to its ‘at work’ drivers through the Responsibility business driver management service.

Since winning the account, Leasedrive has adopted Marie Curie Cancer Care as its official charity for the coming year and is organising a series of fund-raising events to boost its contributions.

Marie Curie Cancer Care works tirelessly to challenge the disease through its work in cancer care and research.  Every year the charity provides care to around 25,000 cancer patients and their families - entirely free of charge.  In the community, high-quality Marie Curie nursing gives terminally ill people the choice of dying at home, supported by their families.  At its ten Marie Curie Hospices, the charity actively promotes quality of life for patients and again provides much needed support for their carers.  The charity is also investigating the causes of cancer and better ways to treat the disease at the Marie Curie Research Institute.

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