Street-lighting maintenance services

Tender description

Kent County Council (KCC) is tendering for the conversion of its existing street lighting, lit signs and bollards to Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps, together with implementing a Central Management System (CMS) for the whole of the estate, this will include maintenance once installed. Kent County Council is 1 of the largest lighting authorities in the UK and has 118 000 street lights and some 25 000 lit signs and bollards. The annual cost of illuminating and maintaining the stock is over 9 000 000 GBP, a cost that keeps rising. As part of meeting the challenge of rising energy prices, the Employer wishes to convert all of its current street lights to LED products during the 1st 38 months of the contract period. Coupled with a CMS will enable complete management of its street lighting estate which includes the ability to dim, switch on/off, report faults, metering, etc. This will also provide complete flexibility with regard to any potential future policy change. The budget for the LED conversion programme totals 40 000 000 GBP. The KCC wish to appoint a new a street lighting term service contractor that will provide all of the services as detailed in the Service Information. Once a street light has been converted to LED and is commissioned on the CMS, this will be the responsibility of the appointed contractor. The incumbent services will transfer upon the 1.9.2018 unless it is agreed between both parties to commission these earlier. The contract will commence upon 1.2.2016 and will continue for a period of 15 years and 2 months unless terminated in accordance with the Conditions of Contract attached in Schedule 3 of this Invitation to Tender. There is also a potential for a further contract extension of up to 10 years. This contract will be open to be used by any public sector organisation in the County of Kent including but not limited to District Councils, Medway Council and Parish Councils. Expression of Interest and Tender Process: Expressions of interest will only be accepted via the Kent Business Portal (www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk). In order to submit your interest in this opportunity please select the ‘Login and Express an Interest’ button located at the bottom of this page. Note that in order to successfully submit your interest you will 1st need to register for an account. After registration is complete and you've received your login details you should return to the advert for the opportunity and express your interest.