Essex County Council: Facilities Management- Request for Information

Concepts

• facilities management
• chelmsford
• buildings management
• essex county council
• total facilities management contract
• current total facilities management contract
• programme management
• facilities management- request
• the facilities management provision
• the facilities management industry

Location

Chelmsford

Description

Introduction: Essex County Council's (the Council) current Total Facilities Management Contract ends on the 30th September 2026 with no further option to extend. Therefore, the Council has started on our journey of discovery, regarding how the Facilities Management provision could evolve and innovate beyond this date and would like to engage with the Facilities Management Industry as part of this approach. Market engagement: Following initial market engagement, the Council are now keen to engage further with the market through the publishing of an RFI. The purpose of this RFI is to assist the Council with specification and contract design. This RFI is aimed at TFM providers who can carry out all three of Hard FM, Soft FM and Programme Management. Further engagement with other services will follow in due course. Following the RFI, the Council may request additional meetings with providers to discuss their answers in greater detail.

Total Quantity or Scope

The full description of the Procurement is provided in the previous PIN: 2024/S 000-004244. However, please note this PIN is for market engagement.

CPV Codes

• 79993000 - Building and facilities management services

Indicators

Other Information

The RFI can be found under the Project DN710367 on the Council’s sourcing Portal Pro Contract. Please complete this RFI by 12 noon on 7th June and return it via the messaging function on Pro Contract. Further meetings will take place between Monday 17th June and Friday 28th June. To be notified of our upcoming events please visit the Essex Provider Hub https://www.essexproviderhub.org/facilities-management-and-property-re-procureme... as this is where we will be releasing updates of our latest events and all resources relating to the project can be found. Additional information Respondents are advised that the purpose of this notice is to engage in dialogue with the market and ascertain interest / options available. The scope of service, date of publication or potential contract value should not be taken as a final "version" of requirement. This PIN does not constitute a call for competition to procure any works or services and is not published to reduce time limited for the receipt of tenders. This is NOT a live tender opportunity. Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or (lack) to this PIN. Nor shall a response to this PIN guarantee an invitation to participate in this market consultation exercise or any future procurement process that Essex County Council may conduct. Essex County Council is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party responding to this PIN or any party who may participate in the market consultation exercise. Essex County Council uses Proactis ProContract as its eSourcing portal. Suppliers will only be able to access further information and messaging functionality with the Council via a registered account. Registration is free of charge and gives bidders access to opportunities from several other Local Authority and Public Sector organisations. To register, visit https://procontract.due-north.com/Register The Proactis supplier helpdesk (https://www.proactis.com/uk/support-login/support/) can help with registration queries. Please direct any technical queries to the helpdesk in the first instance. Please direct all queries via the ProContract messaging functionality linked with the advertised opportunity. Anyone contacting the Council via email will be directed to the portal for communications.