Pre-Market Questionnaire for the Servicing and Repair of Grounds Maintenance Equipment for EA's North and East localities

Concepts

• repair and maintenance
• belfast
• vehicles and equipment
• grounds maintenance
• miscellaneous repair
• winter maintenance
• miscellaneous gardening equipment
• grounds maintenance equipment
• market interest
• repair

Location

Belfast

Description

***This is not a tender exercise by the Education Authority.*** The Education Authority (EA) wishes to engage with the market to seek their views on establishing a robust, value for money contract for the Servicing and Repair of Grounds Maintenance Equipment for EA's North and East localities . 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 tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier from 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. Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from CfT documents. The questionnaire must be completed and returned via the Messaging function of etendersni The Education Authority (EA) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to award a framework agreement for the Servicing and Repair of Grounds Maintenance Equipment. The EA wishes to engage with the market at this stage to establish the level of market interest and to gather information that will be beneficial in the tendering process.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 50000000 - Repair and maintenance services
• 50100000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment
• 77314000 - Grounds maintenance services
• 50800000 - Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services
• 50530000 - Repair and maintenance services of machinery
• 34143000 - Winter-maintenance vehicles
• 16160000 - Miscellaneous gardening equipment
• 16310000 - Mowers
• 16311000 - Lawnmowers
• 16000000 - Agricultural machinery
• 16800000 - Parts of agricultural and forestry machinery

Indicators

• Restrictions apply to the lot award allocation.

Other Information

The date relating to the publication of the contract notice is tentative and may be subject to change. All future tender documentation will be made available via https://etendersni.gov.uk and potential tenderers should register on this website to ensure they have access to tender documentation when the tender is published. … The questionnaire must be completed and returned via the messaging function of etendersni. The tender is envisaged to be published Feb 2024. Please note any estimated framework agreement values contained within this notice are subject to change and will be published in the future contract notice. The values within this Prior Information Notice (PIN) represent estimated spend on the framework agreement over four years. The estimated range value for this framework agreement is £500,000 with the upper estimated framework agreement value i.e. £700,000 for contingency purposes within the the lifetime of the framework agreement. This upper limit also includes the provision for Voluntary Grammar schools and other educational establishments who may avail of this framework agreement. Please note, there is no guarantee of the volume required during the framework agreement or to the exact value of orders over the framework agreement period.