Official UK procurement notice
Pre-Market Engagement - Foodstuffs
Authority: Education Authority NI (Education)
The Education Authority seeks to establish frameworks for the supply and delivery of foodstuffs to school kitchens located throughout Northern Ireland and will procure these frameworks early in 2022. As part of the preparation activities, the Education Authority are holding a pre-market engagement event intended to investigate and understand supply market capabilities to inform the development of specifications and tender documentation. Should you wish to participate you must email catering.procure@eani.org.uk with the subject CAT-21-XXX - Pre-market engagement event no later than 12 noon on Monday 22nd November 2021.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Education Authority seeks to establish frameworks for the supply and delivery of foodstuffs to school kitchens located throughout Northern Ireland and will procure these frameworks early in 2022.
As part of the preparation activities, the Education Authority are holding a pre-market engagement event intended to investigate and understand supply market capabilities to inform the development of specifications and tender documentation.
The event will be a virtual session and is open to all interested suppliers.
CPV: Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1No final decision has been made yet on the composition of these frameworks and it is…Planned
No final decision has been made yet on the composition of these frameworks and it is the intention of the Education Authority to hold a pre-market engagement event on Thursday 25th November 2021 via MS Teams or Zoom to discuss our requirements and gain feedback, via a questionnaire issued to interested suppliers.
Should you wish to participate you must email catering.procure@eani.org.uk with the subject CAT-21-XXX - Pre-market engagement event no later than 12 noon on Monday 22nd November 2021.
Your email should include the names of the representatives wishing to attend, the name of your organisation and a summary of the products your organisation is interested in supplying.
Future tender documentation will be made available via the etendersni.gov.uk ↗ website and interested suppliers should register, if not already registered, on this website to ensure they have access to tender documentation when any invitation to tenders are published.
This pre-market engagement event is for information purposes only. Any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in a procurement exercise. Failure to show interest does not restrict suppliers from participating in any future procurement exercise. Additional information: The date relating to the publication of the contract notices are tentative and may be subject to change. All future tender documentation will be made available via etendersni.gov.uk ↗ and potential tenderers should register on this website to ensure they have access to tender documentation when the tender opportunities are published..
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Oct 2021, 18:54 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Oct 2021, 18:54 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-026702- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Oct 2021 → 28 Feb 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published25 Oct 2021, 18:54 BST
- Tender notice expected28 Feb 2022
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.