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SBC 0325 Pre-Procurement Market Engagement Questionnaire for Water Inflatable Feature and Ancillary Activities
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £4,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 23 Apr 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
This notice is a pre market engagement exercise and not a call of tenders.
To provide an Aquatic Adventure facility and ancillary pay and play activities for example pedaloes, stand up paddle boards etc for the 2025 season for 4 years.
The operator must be accredited and have personnel with at least five years experience with providing such a facility in a similar environment.
The bidder must invest in all the equipment required to operate the facility including an inflatable unit which needs to be compliant with ISO 25649-1:2017 Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water or subsequent replacement ISO/FDIS 25649-1
Bidders must provide further investment into required infrastructure e.g. changing rooms, showers, toilets lockers, pontoon lake weights and customer equipment, buoyancy aids, wet suits etc.
Accreditations are required for the facility and operation itself together with RLSS trained lifeguards.
For more details on the specification requirements refer to document 2.3 in the specification.
Bidders are required to meet all of the further requirements in 2.2.
This is a concession contract which will need to be fully operational for the 2025 season.
The concession will be based on a percentage of gross turnover of the concession contract.
The contract will be aligned to the specification documents and lease for the property.
Pre market engagement process
To test the market and understand if operators can meet the requirements of the specification and the set up date for the 2025 season. If an operator can meet the criteria a direct award may be given or if more than one operator meets the criteria there will be a mini competition over a 2 week period.
Clarification/question deadline 30 April , submission 7 May. Operators are to submit the questionnaire by the submission deadline
Documents and further details are available on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/aspx/Home
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 37416000
- 92000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 23 Apr 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 23 April 2025.
Release 016502-2025
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
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07/ Tender hubs
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08/ Related
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05064b
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 18:11 BST
- Read at
- Thu 29 Oct 2026, 22:11 GMT
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