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Summary

OCID:: ocds-h6vhtk-04893a
Published by:: Essex County Council
Authority ID:: AA20967
Publication date:: 10 August 2024
Deadline date:: -
Notice type:: Prior Information Notice
Has documents:: No
Has SPD:: No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:: N/A

Abstract

Essex County Council (the Authority) is issuing a Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the market and to gather information in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market to deliver the proposed service, as well as to alert the market to a future tender opportunity.

Full notice text

Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

Essex County Council

County Hall, Market Road

Chelmsford

CM1 1QH

Contact person: Miss Bethany Gray

E-mail: wasteservice.procurement@essex.gov.uk

NUTS: UKH

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.essex.gov.uk/

Address of the buyer profile: https://www.essex.gov.uk/

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

MARKET ENGAGEMENT - 1066 - Waste Container Purchase Framework

Reference number: DN737291

II.1.2) Main CPV code

44613000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

44613800

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKH

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000

tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal

Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range

of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste.

The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 4 Waste

Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who

are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex.

The Authority has a requirement for the purchase a range of waste containers of various specifications to enable the RCHW sites within the waste service to operate safely and compliantly.

The Authority wishes to invite interested providers to complete the market engagement questionnaire which can be found at the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ZsKm9xFkFB

The closing date for this questionnaire is 12pm (midday) on Friday 23rd August 2024.

It is important to note that this PIN is not a call for competition and as such you will need to

express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published

in Find a Tender and on Contracts Finder.

It should also be noted that this PIN invites individuals and organisations to express an

interest in this exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire. It is also NOT

part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

This PIN is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise.

An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in any future

tendering process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and

organisations who participate.

II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:

27/09/2024

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

09/08/2024

Coding

Commodity categories

ID	Title	Parent category
44613800	Containers for waste material	Large containers
44613000	Large containers	Tanks, reservoirs, containers and pressure vessels

Delivery locations

ID	Description
100	UK - All

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID	Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:: wasteservice.procurement@essex.gov.uk
Admin contact:: N/a
Technical contact:: N/a
Other contact:: N/a

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