Essex County Council: 0757 Bus Shelters and Advertising

UK-Chelmsford: Bus shelters.


Preliminary Questions
   This notice is for prior information only: Yes
   This notice aims at reducing time-limits for receipt of tenders: No
   This notice is a call for competition: No
         
Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1) Name and addresses:
       Essex County Council
       County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1QH, United Kingdom
       Email: Procurement.Team@essex.gov.uk
       Contact: Jim Stewart
       Main Address: www.essex.gov.uk, Address of the buyer profile: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/
       NUTS Code: UKH3
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above
I.2) Joint procurement:
   The contract involves joint procurement: No.
   The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No .

I.3) Communication          
   Further information can be obtained from: the above mentioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority    
   Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity:    
   General public services

Section II: Object
      
II.1) Scope of the procurement - 1
   II.1.1) Title: 0757 Bus Shelters and Advertising    
          Reference number: 0757
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      44212321 - Bus shelters.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      Bus Shelter, Highways and other Assets Advertising - Market Engagement

This Prior Information Notice (PIN) has been issued to the open market to seek expressions of interest from suppliers that wish to take part in market engagement to assist Essex County Council (ECC) in understanding the advertising arena in more detail to shape future planning.

ECC would like to hear from suppliers willing to share information about their approach to the provision of Bus Shelter infrastructure including maintenance, supply, installation and delivering advertising revenue opportunities.

This PIN is not a call for competition, for the purposes of Regulation 26(9) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 7,500,000 - GBP
   II.1.6) Information about lots:
      This contract is divided into lots: No          
      Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: Not Provided       
      The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots: Not Provided

II.2) Lot Description          
   II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s):       
      79340000 - Advertising and marketing services.          
      22462000 - Advertising material.          
      79341000 - Advertising services.          
      79341100 - Advertising consultancy services.          
      79341200 - Advertising management services.          
      79341400 - Advertising campaign services.          
      79993100 - Facilities management services.          
      71311300 - Infrastructure works consultancy services.          
      34928440 - Bus-stop posts.          
      44212321 - Bus shelters.          
      45213315 - Bus-stop shelter construction work.          
      45233139 - Highway maintenance work.       
   II.2.3) Place of performance:       
      Region Codes:               
         UKH3 - Essex    
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:       
      ECC is keen to understand potential approaches for the management of supply, maintenance and installation of Bus Shelters across Essex and associated advertising. ECC would like to engage the market to understand different models for achieving our minimum aim of awarding a cost neutral/income generating contract with a view to potential for future revenue growth. ECC envisage a contract that would require the supplier to install & maintain Bus Shelter infrastructure, whilst generating income from the advertising opportunities available with the shelters. Suppliers will suffer no prejudice for not participating in ECCs market engagement. With the exception of commercially confidential information, which the supplier should indicate as such, information gathered during the engagement event may be used to inform ECC’s future requirements and may also be published to all suppliers together with any other relevant documents in the event of any future procurement activity.    
   II.2.14) Additional information          
      To participate please follow the process below:
•Suppliers to express an interest in this engagement exercise should email : Procurement.Team@essex.gov.uk
•Suppliers need to register an interest by 12 noon 04/03/20199. ECC will send briefing papers to those attending the event by 17:00 on 11/03/2019. We anticipate the event will take place during the w/c 18/03/2019 in Chelmsford, Essex.    


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         03/06/2019
      
      
Section IV: Procedure   

IV.1) Description       
   IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA )
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) - YES

Section VI: Complementary Information    
VI.3) Additional Information:       
   To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=368704136
GO-201925-PRO-14018861 TKR-201925-PRO-14018860        

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 05/02/2019