Published date: 12 March 2024

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 12 April 2024

Contract summary

Industry

  • Refuse recycling services - 90514000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Procurement reference

TBC

Published date

12 March 2024

Closing date

12 April 2024

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Authority is seeking a contract for the collection from households, transport, sorting/processing, and sale of textiles from across the whole West Northamptonshire Council area.

Market Engagement

We would like, at this stage prior to commencing formal procurement, to seek input from the market as to what the appetite is for undertaking this service and to allow an opportunity to discuss options for the delivery of future provision.

Some of the issues we are seeking input on include:

• contract length
• the state of the market
• charity payments
• mobilisation periods

The Authority intends to hold an open information session for all interested organisations as individual scheduled meetings via Microsoft Teams.

A questionnaire will be issued to all interested organisations prior to the individual meetings and will be discussed with all interested parties in a set format. All discussions will be noted, any commercially sensitive information will be kept confidential.

The meeting sessions with individual interested parties will be held on:

• Monday, 22 April 2024
• Tuesday, 23 April 2024
• Wednesday, 24 April 2024
• Thursday, 25 April 2024

Interested parties will be allocated a time slot of 45 minutes between 10:00 and 14.00, due to this we may have to cap the maximum amount of interested parties, but please be assured this will not impact your ability to participate in the impending tender opportunity.

If you wish to attend one of the meetings, please complete the attached Word document 'Textile Soft Market Engagement Information March 2024 Final' by 17:00 on Friday, 12th April 2024 and return to:

claire.baker@westnorthants.gov.uk

The Authority anticipates notifying all interested parties with their slot allocation by Thursday 18 April 2024.

Participation in this process will not impact your ability to engage with the future tender opportunity.

Please view the attached 'Textile Soft Market Engagement Information March 2024 Final' for further details.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

Please view the 'Textile Soft Market Engagement Information March 2024 Final' attachment for further details of this procurement.

About the buyer

Contact name

Claire Baker

Address

The Guildhall,St. Giles Square
NORTHAMPTON
NN11ED
England

Telephone

03001267000

Email

claire.baker@westnorthants.gov.uk

Website

www.westnorthants.gov.uk