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Somerset County Council

Street Lighting LED Upgrade

Transport EquipmentCPV 34000000 50000000 34920000 50230000 34928510 34928500 50232100
Value£3.6m
Awarded2 Sept 2015
Published16 Aug 2016
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£3.6mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£3.9m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Somerset County Council (SCC) is conducting this procurement using the open procedure in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the purpose of procuring the requirements described in the Specification.

A contract notice published on OJEU reference number 9X3B-X5ZAR3 was dispatched.

This ITT contains further information about the procurement process, the Works, and the tender formalities.

Each Tender should be detailed enough to allow SCC to make an informed selection of the most appropriate solution.

This procurement is being carried out by SCC to select a Supplier for the provision of a programme of works to replace current sodium street lighting lamps with more energy efficient LED lamps.

It covers the provision of all products, equipment and associated Works required to carry out a full programme of replacement.

The programme is an ‘Invest to Save’ Street Lighting project to replace the conventional lanterns with LED lanterns.

The Councils current illuminated street light assets are made up of SOX & SON lanterns.

The revenue operating expenses associated with the present lighting stock are electricity and maintenance costs.

Approximately 75% of operating expense is for electricity and 25% for regular maintenance.

Falling costs are helping to turn LED technology into a mainstream lighting solution.

This, combined with the reduced maintenance costs of LED lights, presents the opportunity to make significant ongoing energy and cost savings The scope of the project is lantern replacement only.

There are a total of 18,067 units to be replaced.

However suppliers are asked to provide an option price for column replacement should this be required as part of the project.

SCC seeks to appoint a partner with a proven track record in this field.

The Project will be offered as one contract however companies and organisations may decide to work together as a consortium where they have complementary skills and expertise to fulfil the different parts of the contract.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Each Tender should be detailed enough

Each Tender should be detailed enough to allow SCC to make an informed selection of the most appropriate solution.

02

It covers the provision of all products

It covers the provision of all products, equipment and associated Works required to carry out a full programme of replacement.

03

However suppliers are asked to provide

However suppliers are asked to provide an option price for column replacement should this be required as part of the project.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
b7b009c5-0ed3-4906-8759-48b9d9a321a2
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
SOMRTD001-DN92911-92178310
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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