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Flags, Poles, Timetable Frames and Posting of Timetables

Buyer: Essex County Council →

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BuyerEssex County Council
StatusAwarded
Deadline18 Dec 2025
Value£3,552,900
Published16 Feb 2026

What is being bought

Essex County Council ('the Authority') is seeking to procure the supply, installation and maintenance of Flags, Poles and Timetables Frames (Bus Infrastructure), plus the continued frequency of Printed Timetable Posting. N.B PLEASE NOTE - this Contract Award Notice is a reissue to correct minor issues in the previous Award Notice. Therefore the contracts listed as '3' and '4' in this notice, are instead the replacements for '1' and '2' in the previous notice. The award remains the same, and the standstill dates have been revised accordingly.

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Lot 2

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Comparable-procurement analytics

No usable CPV category has been published, so a comparable market set cannot yet be built.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Lot 1. Flags, Poles and Timetable Frames

Statuspending
Value£3,292,424
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 30 Jun 2034

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04fb4f
Latest release ID013779-2026
Latest release timestampMon Feb 16 2026 11:59:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/073692-2025
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release2
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
16 Feb 2026award, contract013779-2026
13 Feb 2026award, contract013579-2026
13 Nov 2025tender073692-2025
12 Jun 2025planning031953-2025
1 Apr 2025planning012253-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (5 releases)
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12 Jun 2025 · 031953-2025 · planning
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  "date": "2025-06-12T14:15:46+01:00",
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1 Apr 2025 · 012253-2025 · planning
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  "date": "2025-04-01T13:41:42+01:00",
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        "description": "This is a market engagement process for the procurement of flags, poles and timetables frames, plus the continued frequency of printed timetable posting alongside the 7 change dates for the entire County of Essex.\nTo support with this process, we are requesting information from relevant organisations to help us define our requirements. Therefore we would like you to provide responses to the below questionnaire.\nPlease click on the link below to complete the market engagement questions. \nhttps://forms.office.com/e/TpMSGjb93S"
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