Official UK procurement notice
Intelligent Transport Systems M2M Data SIM's and Data Pool
Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAs part of Kent County Council's (KCC) communications infrastructure, to link on-street assets in real time to the Traffic Operations Centre based in Aylesford, Kent - we are looking to procure a new contract for the existing estate of SIMS and associated shared data pool.
The service will concentrate on the provision and operation of Data Only Machine to Machine (M2M) SIM's and associated estate wide Data Pool, used to monitor and control on-street equipment - primarily traffic signals and VMS.
The service operates county wide and as such assets may be in Urban, Inter-Urban or Rural locations.
Alongside the existing estate, there may also be a requirement for SIMs to be added for new assets when installed.
In order to obtain a greater understanding of the current market and to aid specification design, the Council would be very grateful if you would participate in this market engagement exercise.
Access to this exercise is via the Kent Business Portal :
procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗
Deadline for submission is 7th April 2025 - 12 noon.
CPV: Control, safety, signalling and light equipment · Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment · Road traffic-control equipment · Telecommunication services except telephone and data transmission services · Traffic-monitoring equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 1 Apr 2025, 09:31 BST
- Authority reference
CN240214- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-012136- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f7abFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Mar 2025 → 14 May 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMT
- Latest notice published1 Apr 2025, 09:31 BST
- Market engagement7 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
As part of Kent County Council's (KCC) communications infrastructure, to link on-street assets in real time to the Traffic Operations Centre based in Aylesford, Kent - we are looking to procure a new contract for the existing estate of SIMS and associated shared data pool.
The service will concentrate on the provision and operation of Data Only Machine to Machine (M2M) SIM's and associated estate wide Data Pool, used to monitor and control on-street equipment - primarily traffic signals and VMS.
The service operates county wide and as such assets may be in Urban, Inter-Urban or Rural locations.
Alongside the existing estate, there may also be a requirement for SIMs to be added for new assets when installed.
In order to obtain a greater understanding of the current market and to aid specification design, the Council would be very grateful if you could provide your insight for the below areas.
Please note, completing this request for Market Engagement is not a prerequisite to be able to tender for this opportunity at a later date.
We have included a draft specification (Draft CN240214- Specification) to provide a further understanding of our requirements, however this version has been released to assist with Market Engagement only. It does not constitute the Council's final specification for this service and is subject to change.
A Market Engagement Questionnaire and Indicative Pricing schedule has been included for completion.
All expressions of interest, clarifications and completed questionnaires should be returned via the Kent Business Portal :
procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗
Deadline for submission is 7th April 2025 12 noon.
- Contract starts14 May 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Mar 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Mar 2025, 09:23 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Mar 2025, 13:01 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Apr 2025, 09:31 BSTUK2
Published amendments (3)
Contact email address has been amended.
Submission deadline amended to 7th April 2025 12 noon
Correction of tender reference no. to CN240214
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-03: 1 release · 24 Mar 2025
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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender