Planning

Waste Service Mobile Plant - Market Engagement

  • Essex County Council

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

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-033793

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-052485 (view related notices)

Published 19 June 2025, 3:42pm



Scope

Reference

C002PA

Description

Background:

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.

Brief Overview of the Requirement:

The Authority has a requirement for a variety of plant machine vehicles across a variety of sites throughout the county, ECC is publishing a survey which is intended to enable Essex to evaluate the most suitable procurement route for the Authority.

To evaluate the most suitable procurement route we are asking for indicative pricing information from suppliers for the following machines:

20 tonne material handlers, 20 tonne loading shovels and 16/07 tonne material handlers.

Details of the specifications for each machine are included within the survey which can be found here: https://forms.office.com/e/TH2kAcnuUc

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2027 to 1 April 2032
  • 5 years, 1 day

Main procurement category

Goods

Additional procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 16000000 - Agricultural machinery
  • 42000000 - Industrial machinery
  • 43000000 - Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment

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

4 July 2025

Engagement process description

Responses are being gathered via a Microsoft Forms Survey which can be found here: https://forms.office.com/e/TH2kAcnuUc

Please Note: This premarket engagement notice is intended as an information gathering exercise. Participation in this survey is not an 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.


Contracting authority

Essex County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWVM-4844-NRQH

County Hall, Market Road

Chelmsford

CM1 1QH

United Kingdom

Region: UKH36 - Heart of Essex

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government