Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 2 May 2025, 16:16 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Mobile Plant Machine Purchase

Official notice

Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)

GoodsSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 9 moends 30 Apr 2026 · starts 1 Aug 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste.

The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 5 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex.

The Authority has a requirement for a variety of plant machine vehicles across a variety of sites throughout the county, this survey is intended to enable Essex to have a greater understanding of the market for the following kinds of equipment;

Material Handling Machines, Tractors, suitable for delivering countryside management requirements and 20 tonne loading shovels.

NOTE: This premarket engagement notice is intended as an information gathering exercise. Participation in this survey is no indication of a commitment to participate in any future tendering process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who participate.

The deadline for submitting a response to this Market Engagement Questionnaire is 12pm (midday) on Wednesday the 14th of May 2025.

CPV: Agricultural machinery · Industrial machinery

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 9 moSME

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
Unspecified in notice
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
2 May 2025, 16:16 BST
Last source update
15 May 2025, 11:12 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-021627
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Agricultural machineryIndustrial machinery
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050c99 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

2 May 2025 → 1 Aug 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    2 May 2025, 16:16 BST
  2. Latest notice published
    15 May 2025, 11:12 BST
  3. Market engagement
    28 May 2025, 23:59 BST

    The Authority wishes to invite interested Suppliers to complete the market engagement questionnaire which can be found at the link below:

    forms.office.com/e/qZ28gfDqdg ↗

  4. Contract starts
    1 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 May 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    2 May 2025, 16:16 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    15 May 2025, 11:12 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

The deadline for response has been extended in order to obtain more responses to the survey.

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

Essex County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWVM-4844-NRQH County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, East of England, CM1 1QHContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure