Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire – Maintenance of Vehicles – Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust
Authority: Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to seek additional engagement with the
market place to gather information associated with the service for the Maintenance of Vehicles for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust. To this end the Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service on behalf of Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI), wish to engage with potential suppliers to obtain a market view of the potential requirements through the completion of a Questionnaire. Any interested Suppliers are required to submit their response through the eTendersNI secure messaging area of the Call for Tender (CfT) Ref: 6081453. All correspondence in relation to this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise must be communicated via the eTendersNI secure messaging area. Suppliers will be required to submit their completed Questionnaire no later than 15:00 hours on 13 October 2025. To register on eTendersNI and access the Questionnaire, please use the following link: - etendersni.gov.uk ↗ and locate CfT Ref: 6081453. Suppliers should also note that any interest shown does not constitute commitment to participate in any future tendering exercise.
CPV: Maintenance and repair services related to specific parts of vehicles · Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services of vehicle brakes and brake parts · Repair and maintenance services of vehicle gearboxes · Repair and maintenance services of vehicle transmissions · Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment · Vehicle-fleet-support services
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
- 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
- 29 Sept 2025, 11:11 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2025, 11:11 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-060411- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a3ceFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Sept 2025 → 1 May 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published395 days ago29 Sept 2025, 11:11 BST
- Market engagement345 days ago17 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
This is a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to seek additional engagement with the market place to gather information associated with the service for the Maintenance of Vehicles for Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust. To this end the Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service on behalf of Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI), wish to engage with potential suppliers to obtain a market view of the potential requirements through the completion of a Questionnaire. Any interested Suppliers are required to submit their response through the eTendersNI secure messaging area of the Call for Tender (CfT) Ref: 6081453. All correspondence in relation to this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise must be communicated via the eTendersNI secure messaging area. Suppliers will be required to submit their completed Questionnaire no later than 15:00 hours on 13 October 2025. To register on eTendersNI and access the Questionnaire, please use the following link: - etendersni.gov.uk ↗ and locate CfT Ref: 6081453. Suppliers should also note that any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in any future tendering exercise.
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 183 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Sept 2025, 11:11 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender