Official UK procurement notice
SOFT MARKET TESTING Rutland County Council Highways Term Maintenance Contract (TMC)
Authority: Rutland County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTHIS IS NOT AN INVITATION TO TENDER Please note all information provided is indicative and for information purposes only.
Rutland County Council (the Council) is undertaking a soft market testing exercise, with the aim of providing information to and requesting feedback from the highway industry. The Council is especially keen to explore:
- The contract options and delivery models
- Incentivisation of the delivery
- The implications of the government’s drive for social value
- The level of background information required by the market to prepare a potential bid
- Retaining flexibility in delivery mechanisms to take account of improved technologies and to reflect changes in regulations over a long-term contract
- Introducing services to this contract currently undertaken by RCC or others
The Council’s intention is to undertake a procurement exercise that is compliant with the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and advertise through “Find a Tender”, for a Term Maintenance Contract (TMC). The operational service delivery elements would commence on 1st June 2024.
Responses should be submitted via ProContract www.eastmidstenders.org ↗ by 12:00noon on 19th November 2021. Please note that participation (or lack of) will not (dis)advantage any potential bidder for future tender opportunities.
CPV: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork · Highways consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Please see the "Soft Market Testing Questionnaire" for full indicative details.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- 13 Oct 2021, 10:55 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2021, 09:17 GMT
- Authority reference
DN575623- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-027503- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02eb46Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
3 Nov 2021 → 3 Apr 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published3 Nov 2021, 09:17 GMT
- Tender notice expected3 Apr 2023, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated3 Nov 2021, 09:17 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextShort description · II.1.4 | Responses should be submitted via ProContract www.eastmidstenders.org by 12:00noon on 12th November 2021. Please note that participation (or lack of) will not (dis)advantage any potential bidder for future tender opportunities. | Responses should be submitted via ProContract www.eastmidstenders.org by 12:00noon on 19th November 2021. Please note that participation (or lack of) will not (dis)advantage any potential bidder for future tender opportunities. Please note that the Council has extended the deadline for Soft Market Testing responses by one week, therefore, the deadline is now 12:00noon on 19th November 2021. |
1 amendment published without a description.
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOfficial documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.