Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-11-18
Buyer: Oxford City Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 34144900: Tram cars
Estimated value: 1 GBP

Technical requirements: Oxford City Council, as part of its Go Ultra Low On-street project, is conducting some market testing ahead of a possible tender planned for publishing in the coming weeks.
After the successful completion of Phase 1, the GULO project using the lessons learned, intends to launch Phase 2 which will see the installation of up to 100 charging solutions in Oxford City. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is particularly interested in the supply and installation as well as back office provisions of EV charging solutions.
This PIN is for suppliers who are authorised as OLEV suppliers and comply with the OLEV minimum technical specifications for charging equipment for both ‘Public Access charging equipment’ and residential on-street (Restricted access)’ for the supply specification, installation, commissioning, testing and ongoing operation, maintenance and inspection of the charging solutions. For more information see:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/grants-for-local-authorities-to-provide-residential-on-street-chargepoints/grants-to-provide-residential-on-street-chargepoints-for-plug-in-electric-vehicles-guidance-for-local-authorities#annex-b-minimum-technical-specifications-on-street-residential-technical-specifications-unrestricted
The link below takes you to a survey to gain market intelligence to confirm the potential tender we publish is relevant to the market, and makes the most of new solutions and business models. All responses will be treated as commercially confidential.
We hope you will participate in this process to help us get the best out of our procurement exercise and enable a viable, robust and long term solution for EV charging in our City.
This PIN does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services, supplies or works for Oxford City Council. The South East Business portal is being used to carry out this procurement process. For further information and to enable you to respond to our request for information, please register free on https://procontract.due-north.com
Oxford City Council, as part of its Go Ultra Low On-street project, is conducting some market testing ahead of a possible tender planned for publishing in the coming weeks.
After the successful completion of Phase 1, the GULO project using the lessons learned, intends to launch Phase 2 which will see the installation of up to 100 charging solutions in Oxford City. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is particularly interested in the supply and installation as well as back office provisions of EV charging solutions.
This PIN is for suppliers who are authorised as OLEV suppliers and comply with the OLEV minimum technical specifications for charging equipment for both ‘Public Access charging equipment’ and Residential On-Street (Restricted access)’ for the supply specification, installation, commissioning, testing and ongoing operation, maintenance and inspection of the charging solutions. For more information see:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/grants-for-local-authorities-to-provide-residential-on-street-chargepoints/grants-to-provide-residential-on-street-chargepoints-for-plug-in-electric-vehicles-guidance-for-local-authorities#annex-b-minimum-technical-specifications-on-street-residential-technical-specifications-unrestricted
The link below takes you to a survey to gain market intelligence to confirm the potential tender we publish is relevant to the market, and makes the most of new solutions and business models. All responses will be treated as commercially confidential.
We hope you will participate in this process to help us get the best out of our procurement exercise and enable a viable, robust and long term solution for EV charging in our City.
This PIN does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services, supplies or works for Oxford City Council. The South East Business portal is being used to carry out this procurement process. For further information and to enable you to respond to our request for information, please register free on https://procontract.due-north.com


Award value: 1