Published date: 28 July 2023

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 31 August 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Street-lighting equipment - 34928500

  • Street-lighting columns - 34928510

  • Lampposts - 34928520

    • Street lamps - 34928530

    • Maintenance services of public-lighting installations and traffic lights - 50232000

Location of contract

Gibraltar

Procurement reference

13_2022

Published date

28 July 2023

Closing date

31 August 2023

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The contracting authority, the Gibraltar Electricity Authority, via HM Government of Gibraltar (HMGoG), invites responses from suitably qualified and experienced economic operators interested in design, supply, installation, and maintenance of a smart public street lighting system.

This expression of interest is being published as a means of preliminary market consultation leading up to the release of the tender under the provision of regulation 40 of the Procurement (Public Sector Contracts) Regulations 2016.

The contracting authority is interested in understanding, and responses should demonstrate:

1) Whether the specifications contained hereunder in the Draft Tender Specification (available via https://hmgogsupplier.gibraltar.gov.gi) and the contract/remuneration model outlined therein are viable;

2) What possible technical solutions available in the market and how these could maximise HMGoG's Smart City objectives;

3) The vagaries, conditions and subjectivities of replacing the existing light fittings and replacing this with energy efficient LED alternatives;

4) What other infrastructure work would be required to implement the Smart Street Lighting System;

5) Through the submission of outline methodologies and project programmes the resources (including workforce) required to install and manage the Street Lighting System and infrastructure;

6) Whether installation of the new light fittings and infrastructure could be carried out by the contracting authority and the impact of this to the outline methodologies and project programmes; and

7) What further information is required from the contracting authority.

The contracting authority further reserves the right, following the publication of this expression of interest, under the provisions of regulation 48 of the aforementioned Procurement Regulations, to reduce the tender timescales application to the resultant tender.

Respondents shall not be entitled to claim from the contracting authority or HMGoG any costs or expenses that may be incurred in preparing their responses. This notice creates no legal rights or obligations and cannot be relied on for any such purpose.

The responses and results of this process will be kept confidential, save as the provisions of regulation 41 of the aforementioned Procurement Regulations or other such legal instrument may apply.

Further details are available in the attached document.

Responses and queries from interested parties must be submitted via HM Government of Gibraltar's Supplier Network Portal: https://hmgogsupplier.gibraltar.gov.gi
 

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Gibraltar does not participate in the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). HM Government of Gibraltar therefore reserves the right to consider only those bids from eligible tenderers in Gibraltar, the UK, or a country or territory covered by a trade agreement extending to Gibraltar that contains relevant procurement provisions.

About the buyer

Contact name

Jordan Borg

Address

6,Convent Place
Gibraltar
GX111AA
England

Telephone

+35020051631

Email

procurement.info@gibraltar.gov.gi

Website

https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi