Planning

Site Shunters and Trailer Maintenance

  • Essex County Council

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

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-045370

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0565e8

Published 24 July 2025, 5:42pm

Last edited 1 August 2025, 4:27pm

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The deadline has been extended to the 07/08 to gather more responses.

Scope

Reference

C016PA

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 have 5 'hooklift' Shunter Vehicles and 4 Tri-Axle Trailers trailers based at various sites across 7 locations within Essex. These vehicles require regular maintenance and repair.

The authority has an ongoing requirement for a contractor to provide regular servicing and ad hoc remedial works for these vehicles.

This survey is intended to provide information for the Authority on how many suppliers there are in the market who can provide these services and the markets maturity regarding social value and climate.

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 18 November 2025 to 19 November 2030
  • 5 years, 2 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 50000000 - Repair and maintenance services

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

7 August 2025

Engagement process description

The engagement process is being carried out by collecting responses to a short MS Form Survey. The survey can be accessed here: https://forms.office.com/e/a9hbTCWdwv

Please note the survey deadline has been extended to the 07/08/2025

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