Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 23 Apr 2025, 13:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

SBC 0325 Pre-Procurement Market Engagement Questionnaire for Water Inflatable Feature and Ancillary Activities

Official notice

Authority: Stevenage Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesConcessionSME suitableVCSE suitable
Concession value (operator's revenue)£4,000,000operator revenue, not the authority's budget
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrs 5 moends 31 Oct 2029 · up to 31 Oct 2030 with extensions · starts 31 May 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This 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 published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrs 5 moSMEVCSE
Contract period: 31 May 2025 – 31 Oct 2029 (4 yrs 5 mo) · up to 31 Oct 2030 with extensions
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options 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
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)
Leisure equipmentRecreational, cultural and sporting services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05064b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 Apr 2025 → 31 May 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    23 Apr 2025, 13:23 BST
  2. Market engagement
    7 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/… ↗

  3. Contract starts
    31 May 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Apr 2025, 13:23 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

Stevenage Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHLV-8626-LHWZ Daneshill House, Danestrete, Stevenage, East of England, SG1 1HNContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure