Closed tender

535_26 Hire of Plant (with operator)

Details

Value
£8,000,000
Topic
Agricultural machinery
Published
20 November 2025
Submission
19 December 2025

Tender description

An ESPO client specific framework for the hire of a range of general plant with operator. The Framework is divided into 7 lots. Note: The award values per lot as captured in this notice is for the overall framework (with this same overall value being captured per lot), as ESPO offers no guarantees or estimates of value that may pass through each individual lot (but the overall usage across all lots is not expected to exceed this overall framework value).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published20 November 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date19 December 2025

About the buyer

Leicestershire County Council is a local authority that also trades nationally as ESPO, short for the Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation, a professional buying organisation it owns jointly with five more councils. More than 100 free-to-access framework agreements sit alongside a product catalogue of 25,000 items. A framework is an agreement between the buying organisation, ESPO and an external supplier. In-house procurement experts at ESPO support customers through the frameworks and the catalogue.

Over the past 5 years, most of ESPO's contract awards have been in furniture and furnishings, transport equipment and construction work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 16000000 · Agricultural machinery
  • 34921100 · Road sweepers
  • 43000000 · Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment
  • 43260000 · Mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders, and mining machinery
  • 43328100 · Hydraulic equipment
  • 45500000 · Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator
  • 45520000 · Hire of earthmoving equipment with operator
  • 60182000 · Hire of industrial vehicles with driver
  • 77111000 · Hire of agricultural machinery with operator

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