Official UK procurement notice
Community Equipment Service Market Engagement
Authority: BLACKPOOL COUNCIL (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBlackpool Council wishes to enter into exploratory dialogue and scoping discussions with organisations that have the capability and experience to deliver local community equipment services. The main purpose of this notice is to help the Council to scope requirements, understand market capability and assess levels of interest.
You should provide contact details for your organisation and comments/feedback regarding proposed interim, medium-term service offer, viable contract durations, essential service requirements, functions and possible specification options for the Community Equipment Service.
The Council will select a number of organisations from those applying to participate in dialogue. Participation (or non-participation) will confer no advantage or disadvantage should the Authority commence a formal procurement process at some future date.
CPV: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Health and social work services · Post and courier services · Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This notice is for market engagement onlyPlannedRenewal
This notice is for market engagement only. Blackpool Council wishes to enter into exploratory dialogue and scoping discussions with organisations that have the capability and experience to deliver local community equipment services. The main purpose of this notice is to help the Council to scope requirements, understand market capability and assess levels of interest.
The supplier will be responsible for providing end-to-end warehouse/depot services including; new and reused stock storage, delivery/collections across the local Blackpool/Fylde coast area, cataloguing, cleaning, recycling, servicing and repairs in line with national legislation and best practice standards.
New equipment will be sourced by the Council and NHS and delivered to the local supplier warehouse /depot, where it will be safely stored. The supplier will be responsible for recovering equipment that is no longer in use to the warehouse for cleaning, repair, servicing, storage and reuse. In future, greater levels of equipment will be recovered for recycling and commissioning authorities will set ambitious targets for maximal levels of reuse.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Dec 2023, 13:01 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Dec 2023, 13:01 GMT
- Authority reference
DN704149- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-037116- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04266eFind a Tender
Publisher note: The Council will select a number of organisations from those applying to participate in dialogue. Participation (or non-participation) will confer no advantage or disadvantage should the Authority commence a formal procurement process at some future date. It is anticipated that a procurement exercise may commence in early spring 2024 to ensure supplier contract/s are in place and implemented by Autumn 2024. The value of any future procurement is likely to be over the threshold value for services.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Dec 2023 → 1 Mar 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published18 Dec 2023, 13:01 GMT
- Tender notice expected1 Mar 2024
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.