Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator

Tender description

Sandwell MBC Highways Services are responsible for co-ordinating plant hire throughout Sandwell. Highways Services are working with the Corporate Procurement Service in order to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of plant hire to supply a range of plant, including compressors, rollers, plate vibrators, excavators, tippers and other specialist plant to meet the plant hire requirements of Sandwell MBC (the ‘Council’). Highways Services wishes to invite interested suppliers (‘Tenderers’) to participate in a tender exercise in relation to the Framework Agreement. The Council is a member of the Black Country Purchasing Consortium, which is a partnership in procurement formed between the borough councils of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton City Council. One of the primary objectives of the Black Country Purchasing Consortium is to establish collaborative framework agreements for the supply of goods and services that are commonly purchased across all four local authorities. It is for each individual local authority to determine if they wish to participate in / utilise each individual framework agreement. For the purpose of this tender exercise, at the time of advertisement only the borough council of Sandwell have confirmed their intention to utilise this framework agreement. However, the borough councils of Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton City Council may wish to utilise it during the term of the framework agreement. The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal. From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the ITT and other related documents. In Order To View the On-Line Questionnaire and Submit a Tender, you will be required to ‘Opt-In’. Please be mindful that if you are cut and pasting your question responses onto the On-Line Questionnaire that you do so from a ‘Notepad’ document, this is due to the fact that some special characters are not accepted within the On-Line Questionnaire. For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the Guidance for ‘Suppliers’ section of the website. All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal. If you require further assistance in respect of the system please contact the In-tend support team on +44 844 272 8810. Closing date: 5.8.2016 at 15:00.