Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Intelligent Transport Systems M2M Data SIM's and Data Pool

Official notice

Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£600,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 9 yrs 10 moends 20 Mar 2035 · starts 14 May 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

As part of Kent County Council's (KCC) communications infrastructure, to link on-street assets in real time to the Traffic Operations Centre based in Aylesford, Kent - we are looking to procure a new contract for the existing estate of SIMS and associated shared data pool.

The service will concentrate on the provision and operation of Data Only Machine to Machine (M2M) SIM's and associated estate wide Data Pool, used to monitor and control on-street equipment - primarily traffic signals and VMS.

The service operates county wide and as such assets may be in Urban, Inter-Urban or Rural locations.

Alongside the existing estate, there may also be a requirement for SIMs to be added for new assets when installed.

In order to obtain a greater understanding of the current market and to aid specification design, the Council would be very grateful if you would participate in this market engagement exercise.

Access to this exercise is via the Kent Business Portal :

procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

Deadline for submission is 7th April 2025 - 12 noon.

CPV: Control, safety, signalling and light equipment · Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment · Road traffic-control equipment · Telecommunication services except telephone and data transmission services · Traffic-monitoring equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMT
Last source update
1 Apr 2025, 09:31 BST
Authority reference
CN240214
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-012136
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Control, safety, signalling and light equipmentRadio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipmentRoad traffic-control equipmentTelecommunication services except telephone and data transmission servicesTraffic-monitoring equipment
Delivery area
South East (UKJ4)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f7ab Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Mar 2025 → 14 May 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMT
  2. Latest notice published
    1 Apr 2025, 09:31 BST
  3. Market engagement
    7 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST

    As part of Kent County Council's (KCC) communications infrastructure, to link on-street assets in real time to the Traffic Operations Centre based in Aylesford, Kent - we are looking to procure a new contract for the existing estate of SIMS and associated shared data pool.

    The service will concentrate on the provision and operation of Data Only Machine to Machine (M2M) SIM's and associated estate wide Data Pool, used to monitor and control on-street equipment - primarily traffic signals and VMS.

    The service operates county wide and as such assets may be in Urban, Inter-Urban or Rural locations.

    Alongside the existing estate, there may also be a requirement for SIMs to be added for new assets when installed.

    In order to obtain a greater understanding of the current market and to aid specification design, the Council would be very grateful if you could provide your insight for the below areas.

    Please note, completing this request for Market Engagement is not a prerequisite to be able to tender for this opportunity at a later date.

    We have included a draft specification (Draft CN240214- Specification) to provide a further understanding of our requirements, however this version has been released to assist with Market Engagement only. It does not constitute the Council's final specification for this service and is subject to change.

    A Market Engagement Questionnaire and Indicative Pricing schedule has been included for completion.

    All expressions of interest, clarifications and completed questionnaires should be returned via the Kent Business Portal :

    procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    Deadline for submission is 7th April 2025 12 noon.

  4. Contract starts
    14 May 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Mar 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Mar 2025, 09:19 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Mar 2025, 09:23 GMT
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Mar 2025, 13:01 GMT
    UK2
  4. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Apr 2025, 09:31 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (3)

Contact email address has been amended.

Submission deadline amended to 7th April 2025 12 noon

Correction of tender reference no. to CN240214

Routine re-releases (4)
  • 2025-03: 1 release · 24 Mar 2025

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Kent County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLDL-8938-YGYW County Hall, Maidstone, South East, ME14 1XQContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (4)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure