Official UK procurement notice
Mobile Plant Machine Purchase
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEssex 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.
The Authority has a requirement for a variety of plant machine vehicles across a variety of sites throughout the county, this survey is intended to enable Essex to have a greater understanding of the market for the following kinds of equipment;
Material Handling Machines, Tractors, suitable for delivering countryside management requirements and 20 tonne loading shovels.
NOTE: This premarket engagement notice is intended as an information gathering exercise. Participation in this survey is no 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.
The deadline for submitting a response to this Market Engagement Questionnaire is 12pm (midday) on Wednesday the 14th of May 2025.
CPV: Agricultural machinery · Industrial machinery
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 2 May 2025, 16:16 BST
- Last source update
- 15 May 2025, 11:12 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-021627- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050c99Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 May 2025 → 1 Aug 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published2 May 2025, 16:16 BST
- Latest notice published15 May 2025, 11:12 BST
- Market engagement28 May 2025, 23:59 BST
The Authority wishes to invite interested Suppliers to complete the market engagement questionnaire which can be found at the link below:
- Contract starts1 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 May 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 May 2025, 16:16 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 May 2025, 11:12 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The deadline for response has been extended in order to obtain more responses to the survey.
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender