Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Essex County Council
County Hall, Market Road
Chelmsford
CM1 1QH
Contact
Miss Bethany Gray
wasteservice.procurement@essex.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKH3 - Essex
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
EPP0103 Integrated Recycling, Waste Collection and Street Cleansing Contract
Reference number
DN711618
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 90610000 - Street-cleaning and sweeping services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Essex County Council is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) update on behalf of Tendring District Council as notice to engage with the market and offer a Bidders Event focused on using ProContract, the Authority's e-Sourcing portal. The aim of this session is to enable prospective bidders who are unfamiliar with the ProContract platform to learn how to register to use the platform, as well as to provide an overview on how to find and respond to the future tender opportunity, and how to ask any clarification questions during the tender period.
The Authority shall be hosting this training as an anonymous a group session via Microsoft Teams. Participants will be able to ask questions via a Q&A function throughout the session.
This training shall be held on Friday 18th October 2024 at 10am - 11am.
To register your interest and book a group session, please email wasteservice.procurement@essex.gov.uk.
It is important to note that this PIN is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in Find a Tender and on Contracts Finder.
It should also be noted that this PIN invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this exercise only, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.
This PIN is intended as an awareness, communication, and information sharing exercise.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2024/S 000-008199
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
DEFAULT
seven.2) Other additional information
Essex County Council is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) update on behalf of Tendring District Council as notice to engage with the market and offer a Bidders Event focused on using ProContract, the Authority's e-Sourcing portal. The aim of this session is to enable prospective bidders who are unfamiliar with the ProContract platform to learn how to register to use the platform, as well as to provide an overview on how to find and respond to the future tender opportunity, and how to ask any clarification questions during the tender period.
The Authority shall be hosting this training as an anonymous a group session via Microsoft Teams. Participants will be able to ask questions via a Q&A function throughout the session.
This training shall be held on Friday 18th October 2024 at 10am - 11am.
To register your interest and book a group session, please email wasteservice.procurement@essex.gov.uk.
It is important to note that this PIN is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in Find a Tender and on Contracts Finder.
It should also be noted that this PIN invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this exercise only, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.
This PIN is intended as an awareness, communication, and information sharing exercise.