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Soft-market testing: Communications and engagement for community, public and private sector audiences

Equal opportunities consultancy services
Market and economic research; polling and statistics
Research and development services and related consultancy services
East of England (UKH3)
Published value
£80,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Essex County Council: "Soft-market testing: Communications and engagement for community, public and private sector audiences". Published status: planned. Published value: £80,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityEssex County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£80,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Essex County Council
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Published history for Essex County Council. 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
5.8Bids / Report
13.5% 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: 284 active published awards; 282 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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 AuthorityEssex County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
Last source update11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationEqual opportunities consultancy services, Market and economic research; polling and statistics, Research and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-044767
What is being bought
The Essex 2055 programme helps to achieve transformational change for residents and businesses. It does this by building support for infrastructure, land and property projects - and attracting the investment required to deliver them. Essex County Council (“ECC”) intends to procure specialist advice to support deliberative resident and business engagement, consensus building amongst politicians and partners, and promotional material and campaigns for both private sector and central government audiences. ECC is considering how to structure this service. A survey has been created to capture insight from prospective suppliers. This survey can be accessed here: https://forms.office.com/e/EunctGCyV2 . At this stage, this opportunity is soft market testing only and not a call for competition. This market test exercise is to allow the Council to ascertain interest from the market, investigate potential options, and consider the best route for a potential future contract opportunity. The total budget for these requirements is estimated to be £80,000 but the number of tender opportunities will be informed by this soft market testing exercise.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £80,000
    11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
  2. Status changed to planned
    11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    Respondents are advised that the purpose of this PIN is to engage with the market and ascertain interest / feasibility and to inform the sourcing route and structure of the potential opportunity. The scope of service, date of publication or potential contract value may be amended following the conclusion of soft market testing and should not be taken as a final "version" of requirement.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    11 Mar 2024, 16:13 GMT
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Essex County Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-4622
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