Tees Valley Digital Transport Delivery Programme - Solution Packaging - Request for Information

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    "description": "Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA)(the 'Contacting Authority'), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group, seeks to engage the market through this Pre-Tender Market Engagement (PTME) exercise to gather market intelligence to support the development of TVCA’s procurement and delivery strategy for a suite of digital transport, data, sensing, and traffic management capabilities that form part of the Tees Valley Digital Transport Delivery Programme.\nSuppliers are requested to respond to this Request for Information (RFI) as part of a wider Pre-Tender Market Engagement (PTME) exercise.\nSpecifically, this RFI seeks to understand:\n•Which of the listed deliverables suppliers are capable of delivering\n•How suppliers believe these deliverables could be most efficiently and effectively packaged for procurement and contract management\n•Whether deliverables could be delivered:\noAs part of a single integrated contract\noAs multiple packaged lots\noOr as stand-alone procurements\nResponses will be used to inform TVCA’s:\n•Procurement strategy and route to market\n•Lotting and packaging approach\n•Contracting and contract management model\n•Sequencing and phasing of delivery\nFor more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/??notice-title??/7895Q9254T\nTo respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7895Q9254T\nIf you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.\nFor more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: \nhttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Darlington:-Traffic-monitoring-equipment./7895Q9254T\nTo respond to this opportunity, please click here: \nhttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7895Q9254T",
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        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "Darlington",
        "postalCode": "DL2 1NJ",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Teesside Airport Business Suite, Teesside international Airport"
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        "name": "Procurement",
        "email": "procurement@teesvalley-ca.gov.uk",
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        "description": "For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/??notice-title??/7895Q9254T\nTo respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7895Q9254T\nIf you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com."
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