Notice Information
Notice Title
Mobile Phone Signal Booster Solution Loughborough College Group Brooksby Campus
Notice Description
Mobile Phone Signal Booster Solution Loughborough College Group Brooksby Campus. The College is undertaking early market engagement in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Loughborough:-Wireless-telecommunications-system./889J98PQR2 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/889J98PQR2
Planning Information
The Brooksby Campus comprises multiple buildings, including academic, residential, sports, and specialist facilities. Poor mobile signal coverage has been identified across parts of the site, impacting communications, lone worker safety, and safeguarding. The College is testing the wider market to understand solutions and cost ranges to support future planning. Suppliers are invited to comment at a high level on solutions capable of: - Improving indoor mobile voice and data coverage - Supporting multiple UK mobile networks - Covering a rural, multi-building campus - Being Ofcom compliant - Being future-proofed (e.g. 5G-ready) No final specification is issued at this stage.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-060684
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003439-2026
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
64 - Postal and telecommunications services
-
- CPV Codes
32510000 - Wireless telecommunications system
64212000 - Mobile-telephone services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £100,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 15 Jan 20264 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 29 Jan 20262 weeks to go
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 4 Apr 2026 - 5 Apr 2027 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE
- Contact Name
- Procurement team
- Contact Email
- procurement@loucoll.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- 01509 618375
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LOUGHBOROUGH
- Postcode
- LE11 3BT
- Post Town
- Leicester
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLF East Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLF2 Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLF22 Leicestershire CC and Rutland
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Charnwood
- Electoral Ward
- Loughborough Southfields
- Westminster Constituency
- Loughborough
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003439-2026
15th January 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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