Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Crawley Borough Council
Town Hall,The Boulevard
CRAWLEY
RH101UZ
Contact
Procurement Team
Telephone
+44 1403215299
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKJ28 - West Sussex (North East)
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Home
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
Fibre Network for Manor Royal Business Park
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 32412100 - Telecommunications network
two.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
two.1.4) Short description
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is an indication of a potential future procurement. Any procurement will be the subject of a later Contract Notice through the Find a Tender Service.
As part of its Towns Fund initiative, Crawley Borough Council is shortly looking to run a procurement exercise to engage a partner to invest alongside the council to deploy a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) telecoms network to Manor Royal business park.
Before this procurement exercise begins, the council wishes to understand the interest from the market to invest.
To register a company's interest, please send company contact details by email to: procurement@horsham.gov.uk. The council will send a short questionnaire for completion by return.
Up to four companies will be invited to a short consultation about the questionnaire. Companies that do not respond to the questionnaire or get invited for consultation will not be precluded from responding to the future procurement.
This consultation period will end on 19 January 2024.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £2,000,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 32412100 - Telecommunications network
- 32424000 - Network infrastructure
- 32562000 - Optical-fibre cables
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKJ28 - West Sussex (North East)
Main site or place of performance
Manor Royal Business Park, Crawley
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Crawley Borough Council secured funding via the UK Government's Towns Fund initiative and has allocated up to GBP2 million of this funding to capital 'digital' projects. The council's proposed digital project is to engage a partner to deploy (and operate) an FTTP network to 100% of the Manor Royal business park, as well as looking to build FTTP network to other business locations in the borough.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
1 February 2024
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