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PRELIMINARY MARKET CONSULTATION QUESTIONNAIRE - Collection, Transport and Delivery of School Meals and Associated Items

Catering services
Hire of goods-transport vehicles with driver
Meal delivery service
+2 more
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Published value
£0
Submission deadline 13 May 2021, 15:00 BST
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Education Authority NI: "PRELIMINARY MARKET CONSULTATION QUESTIONNAIRE - Collection, Transport and Delivery of School Meals and Associated Items". Published status: active. Published value: £0. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 13 May 2021, 15:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityEducation Authority NIScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
13 May 2021, 15:00 BST
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£0
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Education Authority NI
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Education Authority NI. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
12.4Bids / Report
4.4% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 173 active published awards; 91 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityEducation Authority NI
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
Last source update6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
Recurring procurementNo
ClassificationCatering services, Hire of goods-transport vehicles with driver, Meal delivery service, Meals-on-wheels services, Taxi services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02ae07
What is being bought
This is not a tender exercise by the Education Authority. The purpose of this market consultation exercise is to gain an understanding of the market in terms of logistics and technical capability of meeting the delivery timescale requirement of 01 September 2021. The information provided by suppliers will assist the Education Authority (EA) in ensuring that the most efficient and effective methods for the Collection, Transport and Delivery of School Meals and Associated Items are undertaken and included in any forthcoming procurement exercise. 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 procurement exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier 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.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £0
    6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
  4. Submission deadline changed to 13 May 2021, 15:00 BST
    6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published value£0
    This is not a tender exercise by the Education Authority. The purpose of this market consultation exercise is to gain an understanding of the market in terms of logistics and technical capability of meeting the delivery timescale requirement of 01 September 2021. The information provided by suppliers will assist the Education Authority (EA) in ensuring that the most efficient and effective methods for the Collection, Transport and Delivery of School Meals and Associated Items are undertaken and included in any forthcoming procurement exercise. 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 procurement exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier 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.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    6 May 2021, 16:24 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    13 May 2021, 15:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Education Authority NI

Contracting authority GB-FTS-1727
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