Official UK procurement notice
Garage Equipment - Maintenance, Service, Repair and Calibration
Authority: Dorset Police (Police & fire)·On behalf of: The Chief Constable for Devon and Cornwall Police
Sectors: Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment (43)Repair & Maintenance (50)Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: South West (UKK)
Published estimate£750,000≈ £188k / year · £900,000 inc. VAT
Tender notice expected 11 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsstarts 2 Jul 2027
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract for the provision of Garage Equipment, Maintenance, Service, Repair and Calibration for the region's in-house Fleet Vehicle Workshops.
CPV: Calibration services · Repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment · Technical inspection and testing services · Workshop equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Planned
43800000 Workshop equipment50000000 Repair and maintenance services50433000 Calibration services50532000 Repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment71630000 Technical inspection and testing services
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
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BST
- Authority reference
C21047 / 1399- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077caf
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BST
- Market engagementin 31 days30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
Initial market engagement, via a staged approach, is expected to involve suppliers presenting their proposed service offering to relevant regional stakeholders, supported by a PowerPoint presentation. This will be followed by a question-and-answer session to explore any areas requiring further more…
clarification or discussion. Further engagement may include supplier visits to Force workshops, where considered appropriate and by invitation. - Tender notice expectedin 104 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 275 days2 Jul 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 published29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
6 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- The Chief Constable for Devon and Cornwall PoliceBeneficiary authority
- Avon and Somerset ConstabularyContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Devon and Cornwall PoliceProcuring entitySWPPS will manage the tendering process and contract on for the regional contracting authorities comprising of The Police and Crime Commissioners for Avon and Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and The Chief Constables for Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police Forces, and will procure on behalf of Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
- Gloucestershire ConstabularyContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Wiltshire PoliceContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
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