Planning

Mobile Plant Machine Purchase

  • Essex County Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-021627

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-050c99

Published 2 May 2025, 4:16pm

Last edited 15 May 2025, 11:12am

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The deadline for response has been extended in order to obtain more responses to the survey.

Scope

Description

Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste.

The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 5 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex.

The Authority has a requirement for a variety of plant machine vehicles across a variety of sites throughout the county, this survey is intended to enable Essex to have a greater understanding of the market for the following kinds of equipment;

Material Handling Machines, Tractors, suitable for delivering countryside management requirements and 20 tonne loading shovels.

NOTE: This premarket engagement notice is intended as an information gathering exercise. Participation in this survey is no indication of a commitment to participate in any future tendering process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who participate.

The deadline for submitting a response to this Market Engagement Questionnaire is 12pm (midday) on Wednesday the 14th of May 2025.

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 August 2025 to 30 April 2026
  • 9 months

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 16000000 - Agricultural machinery
  • 42000000 - Industrial machinery

Contract locations

  • UKC - North East (England)
  • UKD - North West (England)
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
  • UKG - West Midlands (England)
  • UKH - East of England
  • UKI - London
  • UKJ - South East (England)
  • UKK - South West (England)

Engagement

Engagement deadline

28 May 2025

Engagement process description

The Authority wishes to invite interested Suppliers to complete the market engagement questionnaire which can be found at the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/qZ28gfDqdg

Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Contracting authority

Essex County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWVM-4844-NRQH

County Hall, Market Road

Chelmsford

CM1 1QH

United Kingdom

Email: wasteservice.procurement@essex.gov.uk

Region: UKH36 - Heart of Essex

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government