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title: "Market Engagement on Southend-on-Sea Leisure Centres Contract"
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# Market Engagement on Southend-on-Sea Leisure Centres Contract

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-on-southend-on-sea-leisure-centres-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-048baf). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** As part of this market engagement, Southend-on-Sea City Council (the Council) invite electronic responses from organisations who would be interested in discussing the future proposed interim contract for the provisioning of the Council's leisure centres. The information and feedback the Council receives from the market engagement will be key in assisting the Council to further evaluate its options, validate gathered information, and assist in clarifying the type of procurement process which may be required in the future. Specifically, this market engagement is seeking to help the Council gather information relating to the important technical and commercial elements which need to be addressed. The further documentation relating to this notice and the very simple written submission required of any organisation looking to take part in this market engagement exercise, is available via:

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Southend-on-Sea City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/southend-on-sea-city-council-ons-e06000033)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services, Other community, social and personal services, Recreational, cultural and sporting services
- **Delivery Location:** UKH31
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-048baf`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-on-southend-on-sea-leisure-centres-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-048baf#tl-md)

## Description
As part of this market engagement, Southend-on-Sea City Council (the Council) invite electronic responses from organisations who would be interested in discussing the future proposed interim contract for the provisioning of the Council's leisure centres. The information and feedback the Council receives from the market engagement will be key in assisting the Council to further evaluate its options, validate gathered information, and assist in clarifying the type of procurement process which may be required in the future.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85000000, 92000000, 98000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F026172-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-08-16T13:58:53.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-04T03:39:00.124Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-048baf