Official UK procurement notice
SBC 0325 Pre-Procurement Market Engagement Questionnaire for Water Inflatable Feature and Ancillary Activities
Authority: Stevenage Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis notice is a pre market engagement exercise and not a call of tenders.
To provide an Aquatic Adventure facility and ancillary pay and play activities for example pedaloes, stand up paddle boards etc for the 2025 season for 4 years.
The operator must be accredited and have personnel with at least five years experience with providing such a facility in a similar environment.
The bidder must invest in all the equipment required to operate the facility including an inflatable unit which needs to be compliant with ISO 25649-1:2017 Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water or subsequent replacement ISO/FDIS 25649-1
Bidders must provide further investment into required infrastructure e.g. changing rooms, showers, toilets lockers, pontoon lake weights and customer equipment, buoyancy aids, wet suits etc.
Accreditations are required for the facility and operation itself together with RLSS trained lifeguards.
For more details on the specification requirements refer to document 2.3 in the specification.
Bidders are required to meet all of the further requirements in 2.2.
This is a concession contract which will need to be fully operational for the 2025 season.
The concession will be based on a percentage of gross turnover of the concession contract.
The contract will be aligned to the specification documents and lease for the property.
Pre market engagement process
To test the market and understand if operators can meet the requirements of the specification and the set up date for the 2025 season. If an operator can meet the criteria a direct award may be given or if more than one operator meets the criteria there will be a mini competition over a 2 week period.
Clarification/question deadline 30 April , submission 7 May. Operators are to submit the questionnaire by the submission deadline
Documents and further details are available on in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/… ↗
CPV: Leisure equipment · Recreational, cultural and sporting services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Apr 2025, 13:23 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Apr 2025, 13:23 BST
- Authority reference
CCD01592- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-016502- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05064bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Apr 2025 → 31 May 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published23 Apr 2025, 13:23 BST
- Market engagement7 May 2025, 23:59 BST
To test the market and understand if operators can meet the requirements of the specification and the set up date for the 2025 season. If an operator can meet the criteria a direct award may be given or if more than one operator meets the criteria there will be a mini competition over a 2 week period.
Clarification/question deadline 30 April, submission 7 May. Operators are to submit the questionnaire by the submission deadline
Documents and further details are available on in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/… ↗
- Contract starts31 May 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Apr 2025, 13:23 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender