Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 18 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

GLA Batteries · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Corporation of Trinity House (Central government)

Framework agreementGoodsAbove threshold
Sectors: Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting (31) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£2,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 30 Nov 2029 · up to 30 Nov 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Trinity House intends to run a procurement process to address the consolidated battery requirements across the GLAs, with the aim of establishing a four year framework agreement for the supply of Lead-Acid, GEL (VRLA) and AGM (VRLA) and Lithium batteries to the GLAs, including all specified battery interconnections, racking and lifting boxes, as required. The Framework Agreement will also address battery preparation services, in order to ensure that the published performance of the batteries is achieved.

At this time the tender is due to be run for the battery requirements of Trinity House and Northern Lighthouse Board, with a clause to allow Irish Lights to utilise the framework agreement if and when legal compliance allows.

To view this notice, please click here:

trinityhouse.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html ↗

CPV: Batteries

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs · up to 5 yrs from 1 Dec 2025

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Lot CM38PlannedRenewal 4 yrs
Contract period: 1 Dec 2025 – 30 Nov 2029 (4 yrs) · up to 30 Nov 2030 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “GLA Batteries” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
18 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
Last source update
18 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-033328
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Batteries
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054f11 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

18 Jun 2025 → 1 Dec 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    18 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Market engagement
    28 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST

    The intention for this notice is for interested parties to submit their details to Trinity House, to be invited to the procurement process and further information which may become available. Please can interested suppliers therefore send their email addresses to [email protected] to be added to a register.

  3. Contract starts330 days ago
    1 Dec 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
    UK2

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

Trinity House

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PXWM-8968-LPJY Trinity House, Tower Hill, Trinity Square, London, London, EC3N 4DHContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure