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title: "Prior Information Notice - Maintenance Inspections of Masts and Towers at 11 HIAL Airports"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-046c06"
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buyer: "HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIRPORTS LIMITED"
published: "2024-05-29"
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# Prior Information Notice - Maintenance Inspections of Masts and Towers at 11 HIAL Airports

Buyer: HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIRPORTS LIMITED  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-046c06

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## Summary

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is planning a tender process for maintenance service contracts across its 11 airports during 2024/25. The procurement exercise, titled "Prior Information Notice - Maintenance Inspections of Masts and Towers," falls under the services category, specifically technical inspection and testing services. Contractors interested in participating must register their interest by 25 June 2024, and an Information Session will be held virtually on the same day. The tender involves providing maintenance inspections, reports, and safe-to-climb certificates for various structures at HIAL's airports, aiming to appoint a contractor for these essential maintenance services.

This procurement opportunity at HIAL presents a chance for businesses specializing in technical inspection and maintenance services to compete. Companies adept at providing annual testing services, maintenance inspections, and related reports across various HIAL airports would be well-suited to participate. The dedicates contractor selected will be responsible for ensuring the structural integrity and safety compliance of masts and towers at airports like Barra, Inverness, and Stornoway. Businesses able to offer design, installation, and commissioning services related to airfield structures may find this tender particularly relevant for their growth and expansion strategies.

## Notice

This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to inform the supply market of one of 31 forthcoming Infrastructure Maintenance Service Tenders across HIAL Airports in 2024/25. Masts & Towers Inspections - HIAL operate 96 masts and towers across 11 of its airports at Barra, Benbecula, Campbeltown, Dundee, Inverness, Islay, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Sumburgh, Tiree and Wick John O'Groats. The services are being commissioned to provide HIAL with asset condition inspections, maintenance reports and safe-to-climb certificates for its mast and tower structures located at each of the 11 airports. HIAL are seeking to appoint a dedicated contractor to ensure correct maintenance inspection services to these assets, which are an essential operational and safety obligation.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Contractor must provide annual testing services, maintenance inspections, and maintenance inspection reports on the structural condition and maintenance needs of its 96 masts and towers, located across 11 Airports at Barra, Benbecula, Campbeltown, Dundee, Inverness, Islay, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Sumburgh, Tiree and Wick John O'Groats. The Contractor must provide factual condition reports. The Contractor must provide safe-to-climb certificates for all masts and towers featuring or fitted with climbing facilities. The Contractor may be required to undertake new works related to airfield masts and towers, which will include design, supply, installation and commissioning. See attached PIN Document for more information on the background to requirement, scope, programme and next steps to participate in the tender.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016744-2024 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 29 May 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 27 Jun 2024 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIRPORTS LIMITED |
| Locality | INVERNESS |
| Post town | Inverness |
| Postcode | IV2 7JB |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM2 Highlands and Islands |
| ITL 3 | TLM20 Highlands and Islands |
| Local authority | Highland |
| Electoral ward | Culloden and Ardersier |
| Westminster constituency | Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey |
| Delivery location | TLM6 Highlands and Islands, TLM61 Caithness and Sutherland, and Ross and Cromarty, TLM62 Inverness and Nairn, Moray, and Badenoch and Strathspey, TLM63 Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh, Arran and Cumbrae, and Argyll and Bute, TLM64 Na h-Eileanan Siar, TLM65 Orkney Islands, TLM66 Shetland Islands, TLM71 Angus and Dundee City |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 44 - Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
- 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

### Codes

- 44212200 - Towers, lattice masts, derricks and pylons
- 44212250 - Masts
- 71630000 - Technical inspection and testing services
- 71631000 - Technical inspection services
- 71631400 - Technical inspection services of engineering structures
- 71730000 - Industrial inspection services

## Release History

- 29 May 2024 at 12:26 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016744-2024

## Notice URLs

- http://www.hial.co.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000767548
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=767548
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA13542

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