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0954 Cafes & Retail Concessions in Essex Country Parks - Market Engagement

Details

Topic
Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
Published
1 November 2023

Tender description

Essex County Council (ECC) is dedicated to improving Essex and the lives of our residents. Our ambition is to deliver the best quality of life in Britain. We will achieve this by providing high-quality, targeted services that deliver real value for money. The Authority is looking to assess the interest and capability of the market in delivering catering and/or retail concession opportunities at 5 (five) Essex County Council (ECC) Country Parks: • Belhus Woods Country Park • Cudmore Grove Country Park • Great Notley Country Park • Thorndon Country Park (South) • Weald Country Park ECC would like to invite interested parties to register their interest in this Market Engagement exercise and respond to the questions set out in the Market Engagement Pack, that can be requested by e-mailing: Environment.Procurement@essex.gov.uk. The Market Engagement Pack provides an overview of ECC's current context and intended future direction which may lead to a potential procurement activity. The results of the market engagement exercise will be used by ECC to help define its requirements including potential contract requirements. Please note that this market engagement is not intended as a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in Find a Tender and on Contracts Finder.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published1 November 2023
    Current notice

About the buyer

Essex County Council is a local authority that procures through three in-house teams, Corporate, Place and People. Larger opportunities are advertised through Open, the council's own tendering and contract management platform. Smaller and lower-value contract notices instead appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The Place team commissions highways, waste, energy and transport work, including a dedicated Dynamic Purchasing System for bidders. Construction projects separately run through the Essex Construction Framework, a route for regional contractors. The People team commissions education, social care, adult support and public health services across the county.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Essex County Council's contract awards have been in IT services, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 15000000 · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
  • 55000000 · Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

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