Planning

Market Engagement – Expression of Interest for Belfast public bike hire scheme

  • Belfast City Council

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-014887

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03cf4c

Published 25 May 2023, 11:24am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Belfast City Council

9 Adelaide Street

Belfast

BT2 8DJ

Email

pmu@belfastcity.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 2890320202

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKN06 - Belfast

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/tenders

one.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

General public services


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Market Engagement – Expression of Interest for Belfast public bike hire scheme

Reference number

ITT 37330

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 60112000 - Public road transport services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Expressions of Interest are invited from parties interested in supplying, installing, operating, maintaining and publicising a public bike hire scheme for Belfast targeting a ‘go-live’ date in March 2024. Belfast City Council currently has a public bike hire scheme that was launched in 2015 as a high profile active travel project for Belfast and has been running successfully since then.

This request is issued by Belfast City Council to seek and obtain expressions of interest (EOI) from organisations interested in setting up a New Public Bike Hire scheme in Belfast and / or supplying and operating the existing scheme. This is a market testing exercise which will be used to inform the next stage of the planned future competitive tendering process and does not exclude other interested parties from entering the next stage. The current Public Bike scheme has up to 60 stations with a capacity of up to 600 bikes.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 34430000 - Bicycles
  • 34913510 - Bicycle locks
  • 45233293 - Installation of street furniture
  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems
  • 50000000 - Repair and maintenance services
  • 63712000 - Support services for road transport
  • 66133000 - Processing and clearing services
  • 66172000 - Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
  • 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
  • 79993100 - Facilities management services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKN06 - Belfast

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Expressions of Interest are invited from parties interested in supplying, installing, operating, maintaining and publicising a public bike hire scheme for Belfast targeting a ‘go-live’ date in March 2024. Belfast City Council currently has a public bike hire scheme that was launched in 2015 as a high profile active travel project for Belfast and has been running successfully since then.

This request is issued by Belfast City Council to seek and obtain expressions of interest (EOI) from organisations interested in setting up a New Public Bike Hire scheme in Belfast and / or supplying and operating the existing scheme. This is a market testing exercise which will be used to inform the next stage of the planned future competitive tendering process and does not exclude other interested parties from entering the next stage. The current Public Bike scheme has up to 60 stations with a capacity of up to 600 bikes.

Please refer to ITT 37330 on eSourcing NI to complete EoI Questionnaire

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

30 September 2023


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes