Official UK procurement notice
Sunspot Solar Panels Soft Market Test
Authority: Tendring District Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Essex County Council
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is not a tender
Description of the scope of works:
Supply and install new solar panels to the roof of the existing Sunspot building, inclusive of new associated inverters and battery storage, and building work in connection with including fire stopping.
Split of works vs services:
95% works and 5% services
CPV: Building installation work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
- Authority reference
Ten_04- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-065692- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05cd84Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Oct 2025 → 31 Mar 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published377 days ago15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
- Market engagement360 days ago31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
This is not a tender, this is a soft market test to gauge interest in this opportunity
Please email joshua.carter@essex.gov.uk with the subject "Sunspot Solar Panels" to confirm whether your organisation would be interested in bidding for this opportunity should we progress it to tender stage. Please respond prior to midnight on 31st October 2025.
- Contract starts210 days ago31 Mar 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Oct 2025, 16:18 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Essex County CouncilProcess contact pointProcuring entityRunning on behalf of
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