Official UK procurement notice
Pre Market Engagement Questionnaire - For Tree Surgery and Tree Surveying for locations throughout Northern Ireland
Authority: Education Authority NI (Education)
What is being bought14 lots · detail below
Published requirement description***This is not a tender exercise by the Education Authority.*** The Education Authority wishes to engage with the market to seek their views on establishing a robust, value for money contract for tree surgery and tree surveying across various locations throughout Northern Ireland. Any information gathered through this market consultation exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process. Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from Cft documents. The Questionnaire must be completed and returned via the Messaging function of etendersni
CPV: Forestry and logging products · Forestry services · Hedge trimming · Horticultural services · Surveying services · Tree pruning · Tree pruning and hedge trimming · Tree-cutting services · Tree-maintenance services
Lots and requirements (14)Procurement structure
14 lots · no lot values published · win at most 4 of themApplies to lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
The Education Authority (EA) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to award a framework for tree surgery and tree surveying services. EANI wishes to engage with the market at this stage to establish the level of market interest and to gather information that will be beneficial in the retendering process. Additional information: The date relating to the publication of the contract notice is tentative and may be subject to change. All future tender documentation will be made available via etendersni.gov.uk ↗ and potential tenderers should register on this website to ensure they have access to tender documentation when the tender is published.
Lot #1Tree Surgery - EA premises within Belfast City Council Area - Locality EastPlanned
Lot #2Tree Surgery - EA premises within Mid Ulster Council Area - Locality South WestPlanned
Lot #3Tree Surgery - EA premises within Fermanagh and Omagh Council Area - Locality South WestPlanned
Lot #4Tree Surveying - EA premises within EA locality 3 - EastPlanned
Lot #5Tree Surveying - EA premises within EA locality 2 - NorthPlanned
Lot #6Tree Surveying - EA premises within EA locality 1 - South WestPlanned
Lot #7Tree Surgery - EA premises within North Down and Ards Council Area - Locality EastPlanned
Lot #8Tree Surgery - EA premises within Lisburn and Castlereagh Council Area - Locality EastPlanned
Lot #9Tree Surgery - EA premises within Newry, Mourne and Down Council Area - Locality EastPlanned
Lot #10Tree Surgery - EA premises within Derry City and Strabane Council Area - Locality NorthPlanned
Lot #11Tree Surgery - EA premises within Causeway Coast and Glens Council Area - Locality NorthPlanned
Lot #12Tree Surgery - EA premises within Mid and East Antrim Council Area - Locality NorthPlanned
Lot #13Tree Surgery - EA premises within Antrim and Newtownabbey Council Area - Locality NorthPlanned
Lot #14Tree Surgery - EA premises within Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council Area - Locality South WestPlanned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Jun 2022, 17:34 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Jun 2022, 17:34 BST
- Authority reference
FMM-21-008- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-016982- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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Publisher note: Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from Cft documents. The Questionnaire must be completed and returned via the messaging function of etendersni. The tender is envisaged to be published July 2022. Please note any estimated framework values contained within this notice are subject to change and will be published in the future contract notice. The values within this PIN notice represent estimated spend on the framework over four years. The estimated range value for this framework is £1,125,000 with the upper estimated framework value ie. £6,400,000 for contingency purposes within the framework for unplanned works required over the lifetime of the framework. This upper limit also includes the provision for Voluntary Grammar schools and other Public Bodies who may avail of this framework. Please note, there is no guarantee of the volume required during the framework or to the exact value of orders over the Framework Period. This will be a demand lead contract were if EA have requirement for services and have the funding for services an order will be placed with the respective contractor. In exceptional circumstances, if the successful contractor is unable to carry out the work, the Education Authority reserves the right, at their discretion, to engage another successful contractor from another Lot.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Jun 2022 → 7 Jul 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published21 Jun 2022, 17:34 BST
- Tender notice expected7 Jul 2022, 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
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.