Official UK procurement notice
Bollard Maintenance Contract — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)
Sectors: Transport Equipment & Vehicles (34)Repair & Maintenance (50) Delivery: North West (UKD72)
Published estimate £1,200,000≈ £300k / year · £1,440,000 inc. VAT
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsstarts 29 Jun 2027
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLiverpool City Council is undertaking a market engagement exercise to inform the future procurement of a contract for the maintenance, repair, inspection and support of its Hydraulic Bollard infrastructure.
The Council currently operates a network of 26 hydraulic bollard systems and 3 manual bollard systems at key locations across the city to protect pedestrians, manage vehicular access and support the safe operation of the highway network. These assets are critical to maintaining public safety and ensuring the continued resilience of city centre transport and event management arrangements.
CPV: Bollards · Repair and maintenance services of security equipment · Road traffic-control equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Planned
34923000 Road traffic-control equipment34928450 Bollards50610000 Repair and maintenance services of security equipment
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BST
- Authority reference
DN828207- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f963
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice published6 days ago14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BST
- Market engagementin 11 days1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this engagement is to gain a better understanding of the current marketplace, supplier capabilities, available technologies and best practice approaches for the management and maintenance of hydraulic bollard systems. The Council is particularly interested in understanding the more…
market's ability to support both existing infrastructure and future asset requirements, including fault management, remote monitoring, planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, electrical inspections and performance reporting. Information gathered through this engagement will assist the Council in developing an informed procurement strategy, defining service requirements, establishing appropriate performance standards and determining the optimum contract duration for future service delivery. This exercise does not form part of any formal procurement process and does not constitute an invitation to tender. Participation is voluntary, and responses will be used solely to support the Council's market analysis and contract planning activities. Liverpool City Council welcomes responses from organisations with relevant experience in the maintenance, operation and lifecycle management of hydraulic HVM bollard systems and looks forward to engaging with suppliers to better understand the opportunities and challenges within this specialist market. Suppliers are requested to: • Review the information in the market engagement document to assess whether they could meet the potential requirements of Liverpool City Council. • Submit a response to the RFI by completing the questionnaire and submitting via the ProContract online portal by the deadline time and date which is 12 noon on 01/10/2026. If you have any questions in the interim, please send them via the messaging function on the ProContract portal. If the questions and response are deemed relevant, they may be shared with other suppliers responding to this RFI (anything deemed commercially sensitive will not be shared). Suppliers interested in participating in this request for information can find the questionnaire and the submission portal on ProContract using the reference DN828207. Link to ProContract: https://procontract.due-north.com Questionnaires should all be submitted on the ProContract portal. - Contract startsin 281 days29 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender