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The Essex Carers Hub

Description: The Essex Carers Hub (formerly the Essex Carers Core Offer of Support (ECCOS)). Essex County Council ("the Council") is committed to delivering high-quality, sustainable and preventative services that improve outcomes for residents and reduce inequalities. The Essex Carers Hub ("the Service") will support these ambitions by ensuring unpaid carers are identified early, recognised, valued and able to access timely support that promotes their wellbeing, resilience and independence. Through partnership working and a strengths-based approach, the Service will help carers improve or maintain their quality of life and prevent the escalation of need wherever possible. The Council is seeking a Provider, or lead provider working with delivery partners, to deliver the Essex Carers Hub, a countywide carers specialist support service that improves the wellbeing, resilience and quality of life (read more...)

Summary: Essex County Council is procuring the Essex Carers Hub, a countywide specialist support service for unpaid carers aged 18 and over who live in Essex. The aim is to identify carers early and support their wellbeing, resilience and independence. The service covers specialist information, advice and guidance; coaching and counselling; peer-support groups; wellbeing grants, ordinarily up to £300; training and learning; a single point of contact; and an employment-support pilot. It also includes counselling for young and young adult carers under 18 referred by Essex Youth Service. A provider, or lead provider with delivery partners, will deliver the service. The Council retains responsibility for carers’ assessments and personal budgets. Delivery is across Essex, with scope to expand into Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock.

Food Waste Treatment Services Contract

Description: Essex County Council (ECC) is planning to issue a tender in early January 2027 for a contract(s) relating to the anaerobic digestion treatment and disposal of food waste collected from households in the Essex area. The required treatment services must start on 1 April 2028. ECC currently manages approximately 55,000 tonnes per annum of separately collected household food waste. The contracting authority is Essex County Council and any Successor Body meaning one or more entities which assumes any of the Council's functions (as applicable) as a result of Local Government Reform (LGR). Such successor body or bodies may be, without limitation, a local authority, a combined authority, a combined county authority, a strategic authority or any other status determined pursuant to the Devolution and LGR Legislation.

Summary: Essex County Council is planning to procure food waste treatment and disposal services for separately collected household food waste from the Essex area. The required treatment route is anaerobic digestion. The council currently manages approximately 55,000 tonnes of this waste each year, giving an indication of the operational scale involved. Essex County Council is the buyer, though the contract may also be used by one or more successor bodies taking over council functions following local government reform. The procurement is for services, rather than the supply of equipment or construction works. Suppliers would need to provide a treatment solution for household food waste collected across the council’s service area.

Food Waste Treatment Services Contract

Description: Essex County Council (ECC) is planning to issue a tender in early January 2027 for a contract(s) relating to the anaerobic digestion treatment and disposal of food waste collected from households in the Essex area. The required treatment services must start on 1 April 2028. ECC currently manages approximately 55,000 tonnes per annum of separately collected household food waste. The contracting authority is Essex County Council and any Successor Body meaning one or more entities which assumes any of the Council's functions (as applicable) as a result of Local Government Reform (LGR). Such successor body or bodies may be, without limitation, a local authority, a combined authority, a combined county authority, a strategic authority or any other status determined pursuant to the Devolution and LGR Legislation.

Summary: Essex County Council is planning to procure food waste treatment and disposal services for separately collected household food waste from the Essex area. The required treatment route is anaerobic digestion. The council currently manages approximately 55,000 tonnes of this waste each year, giving an indication of the operational scale involved. Essex County Council is the buyer, though the contract may also be used by one or more successor bodies taking over council functions following local government reform. The procurement is for services, rather than the supply of equipment or construction works. Suppliers would need to provide a treatment solution for household food waste collected across the council’s service area.

Waste Service Mobile Plant

Description: Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste. The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 5 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex. Brief Overview of the Requirement: The Authority requires a number of machines to operate their WTSs and RCHWs. This tender is to procure hire, including repair and maintenance, of the following machines lotted as follows: Lot 1: 4 Loading Shovels (read more...)

Summary: Essex County Council is seeking hired mobile plant, with repair and maintenance, to move waste at its Waste Transfer Stations and Household Waste Recycling Centres across Essex. The requirement is divided into three lots: four 20-tonne loading shovels and three 20-tonne materials handlers for Waste Transfer Stations, plus twelve 16-tonne materials handlers for Household Waste Recycling Centres. The equipment will support the county’s waste management infrastructure, serving a population of almost 1.5 million and around 700,000 tonnes of locally collected waste each year. The work combines the supply and hire of heavy materials-handling machinery with ongoing servicing and repairs. Suppliers may bid for the lot or lots that match their plant fleet and service coverage.

Waste Service Mobile Plant

Description: Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements for the management of waste. The Authority operate 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 5 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and work closely with the 12 borough, city and district councils who are the Waste Collection Authorities (WCA) within the county of Essex. Brief Overview of the Requirement: The Authority requires a number of machines to operate their WTSs and RCHWs. This tender is to procure hire, including repair and maintenance, of the following machines lotted as follows: Lot 1: 4 Loading Shovels (read more...)

Summary: Essex County Council is seeking hired mobile plant, with repair and maintenance, to move waste at its Waste Transfer Stations and Household Waste Recycling Centres across Essex. The requirement is divided into three lots: four 20-tonne loading shovels and three 20-tonne materials handlers for Waste Transfer Stations, plus twelve 16-tonne materials handlers for Household Waste Recycling Centres. The equipment will support the county’s waste management infrastructure, serving a population of almost 1.5 million and around 700,000 tonnes of locally collected waste each year. The work combines the supply and hire of heavy materials-handling machinery with ongoing servicing and repairs. Suppliers may bid for the lot or lots that match their plant fleet and service coverage.

Chelmsford College Website tender

Description: Chelmsford College is a Further Education college offering a variety of courses, both vocational and professional courses, with c.3500 student and c400 staff members across two main campuses, providing courses to 16-19 learners, apprentices and adult day and evening courses. The College website serves a wide array of people in the community from students & parents to local businesses and so the winning design should reflect that the website needs to appeal and be accessible to multiple stakeholder groups. The website's primary purpose is learner recruitment. Its priority audiences are prospective 16 to 19 learners and their parents and carers, adult learners, and employers and apprenticeship partners. It also serves current students, staff and job seekers. The college's objectives for the new website are to increase applicant conversion (read more...)

Summary: Chelmsford College intends to procure services to design and build a new website for its further education provision. The site will support learner recruitment and serve prospective 16 to 19 learners, parents and carers, adult learners, employers, apprenticeship partners, current students, staff, job seekers and the wider community. The scope includes a mobile-first, accessible website with course search and filtering, application conversion improvements, and content management for college staff. The website has 202 pages, including static content, course information, job adverts and newsletters, and must connect with the college’s internal databases and intranet. The supplier will build the site and hand it over to the college’s dedicated team for day-to-day management. Delivery is for Chelmsford College across its Chelmsford campuses. The service is classified as website design services (CPV 72413000).

Auditorium Seating Replacement and Installation Works at Chelmsford Theatre

Description: Chelmsford City Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to undertake the design, manufacture, supply, delivery, installation, testing and commissioning of new auditorium seating at Chelmsford Theatre, Duke Street, Chelmsford. The project includes the provision of fixed and removable seating, wheelchair and companion seating positions, floor fixing systems, seat numbering, sponsor plaques, storage trolleys, spare parts, warranties and aftercare support. The successful contractor will work collaboratively with Citizens Design Bureau (CDB) and the theatre team to develop and deliver a fully operational seating solution that enhances customer comfort and experience, maintains or improves seating capacity where possible, and complies with all relevant accessibility, fire safety and industry standards. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Chelmsford:-Theatre-seats./K6M79534M7 To respond to (read more...)

Summary: Chelmsford City Council is procuring auditorium seating replacement and installation works at Chelmsford Theatre on Duke Street, Chelmsford. The requirement covers the design, manufacture, supply, delivery, installation, testing and commissioning of a complete seating solution. It includes fixed and removable theatre seats, wheelchair and companion seating positions, floor-fixing systems, seat numbering, sponsor plaques, storage trolleys, spare parts, warranties and aftercare support. The contractor will work with Citizens Design Bureau and the theatre team to deliver a fully operational auditorium that improves customer comfort and experience, while maintaining or improving seating capacity where possible. The work is classified as theatre seating and refurbishment, and delivery is in the Chelmsford area. This is a works procurement for one seating replacement project.

Online Digital Catalogue and Archive Management Solutions (ERO Online Digital Catalogue)

Description: Description Essex Record Office (ERO) is seeking to engage with the market to understand available solutions and supplier capabilities that can support the modernisation of its archive management, digital preservation and public access services. ERO is undertaking this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise to inform future procurement activity and ensure that any proposed solutions align with the organisation's statutory responsibilities, service requirements and long-term digital preservation ambitions. ERO is looking to understand the market's ability to provide solutions that can deliver the following outcomes: * Replacement of the current in-house developed Archive Management System (SEAX), which underpins over 80% of ERO's operations and public-facing services, including income-generating online services. * The archive management system will need to: o facilitate viewing the catalogue on-site at Essex Record Office locations (read more...)

Summary: Essex County Council, through Essex Record Office (ERO), is exploring services to replace its in-house archive management system and modernise digital preservation and public access. The proposed service would combine archive, records management and civil registration functions with digital preservation, digital asset management, public catalogue and online archive access, preservation storage or hosting, legacy-system migration, and integration services. It would support on-site and online catalogue viewing, free and subscription-based access to digital collections, user accounts, payments and paywalled content. The solution would also improve search, discovery, customer journeys and public engagement, while supporting income-generating services. Work would be delivered for Essex Record Office in Essex and would cover staff and public-facing services, including access to digital and digitised collections.

Material Re-Processing Services - Dry Recycling

Description: The Authority requires Material Re-Processing Services for Dry Recycling and engaged the market earlier this year to receive feedback on various aspects of this opportunity under UK2 notice 2026/S 000-067223 (ocds-h6vhtk-05d5be). The authority now requires additional information to gain further understanding of the current market and review their contract options. The Authority has its own Waste Transfer Station, located at Warley Depot, Brentwood, CM13 3BH. Kerbside collected recyclables from households are delivered to this depot and are currently transferred to individual re-processors in their separate material streams.: - PAPER AND CARDBOARD (currently collected loose from reusable sacks) - 2307 tonnes collected in 2025/2026 - CANS AND PLASTICS (currently collected loose from reusable sacks) - 808 tonnes collected in 2025/2026 - MIXED GLASS (currently collected separately from boxes) - (read more...)

Summary: Brentwood Borough Council is planning to procure material re-processing services for dry recycling. The work will handle household recyclables collected at the council’s Waste Transfer Station at Warley Depot, Brentwood, before they are transferred to re-processors in separate material streams. The materials are paper and cardboard, cans and plastics, and mixed glass. Paper and cardboard are currently collected loose from reusable sacks; cans and plastics are also collected loose, while glass is collected separately from boxes. Collections take place on alternate weeks. The service is classified as refuse and waste-related services. The work will be delivered in Brentwood and is intended to support the council’s household recycling arrangements.

EPP0424 - King George's Playing Fields Ice Cream Van

Description: Brentwood Borough Council is undertaking a market engagement exercise to inform the potential future procurement of an operator to provide and manage an ice cream van concession at King George's Playing Fields, Brentwood. The successful operator will have sole rights to provide ice cream and cold drinks from a designated pitch within the park. The operator must use an electric ice cream van, provide a range of ice cream products and cold drinks, maintain cleanliness around the site, manage waste disposal, comply with food hygiene and health and safety legislation, maintain required insurances and operate during key seasonal periods.

Summary: Brentwood Borough Council is exploring a future concession for an operator to provide and manage an ice cream van at King George’s Playing Fields in Brentwood. The service covers sales of ice cream products and cold drinks from a designated pitch within the park, with the successful operator receiving sole rights to provide these products there. The operator will be responsible for running the pitch, keeping the site clean, disposing of waste and operating during key seasonal periods. This is a food and beverage catering service, classified under CPV 15000000 and CPV 55520000. Delivery is at King George’s Playing Fields, Brentwood. The council is seeking market views to inform the potential procurement rather than inviting bids for a contract at this stage.