Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 8 Sept 2025, 14:37 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Pre-Market Engagement for Dedicated and secure communication links for CCTV hardware and systems

Official notice

Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Mar 2027 · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Leicester City Council (the Council) are commencing a formal Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise. The purpose of such engagement is to understand the level of market interest and to seek market intelligence on offerings in the market on both commercial off the shelf solutions as well as any innovative proposals from organisations that may have an interest or expertise in this field. The Council is aiming to procure a solution which will deliver and future proof the current functionality and additionally provide flexibility to exploit the use of new technology where this provides benefit to the business, in relation to installation, upgrade and ongoing provision/rental of reliable, low-latency point to point fibre circuits to support Leicester City Council’s Traffic & Public Space and Housing CCTV inventory.

As we are at the PME stage, this by is being advertised as an above threshold PME, however the results of the PME will determine the actual value.

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2027 (1 yr)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Procedure 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
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
8 Sept 2025, 14:37 BST
Last source update
8 Sept 2025, 14:37 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-054689
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0595e5 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Sept 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    8 Sept 2025, 14:37 BST
  2. Market engagement
    18 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
  3. Contract starts213 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Sept 2025, 14:37 BST
    UK2

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

Leicester City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXRT-5737-VBQD City Hall, Leicester, East Midlands, LE1 1FZContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure