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Reading Borough Council

Preliminary Market Consultation - Procurement of Mortuary Services for HM Senior Coroner Berkshire

Community ServicesCPV 98000000 98300000 98370000 98371000 33000000
Value£2
Awarded11 Jul 2019
Published17 Jun 2019
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£2total contract value
median £134k
this tender£0£4.1m

This sits below the typical range for Other Community & Personal Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 5,835 valued Other Community & Personal Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This exercise aims to provide high level information regarding the procurement of suitable mortuary services on behalf of the Berkshire Coroners Service.

This is an initial early market engagement exercise which may result in a formal process under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR).

The document sets out background information, key parameters and requirements, and invites any interested parties to respond to a number of related questions.

At this stage there is no commitment from the Council to any further stages of the procurement process and, indeed, any next steps will be informed by the response to this preliminary market consultation.

The key purposes of this preliminary market consultation are therefore: 1.

To establish the level of market interest in working with the Council to deliver and operate a new mortuary to serve the administrative area of Berkshire.

2.

To better understand the requirements of the market in relation to commercial attractiveness and financial sustainability.

3.

To test the deliverability of a new mortuary in the context of the Council's key parameters and requirements.

4.

To help shape the specification and business case for a new mortuary at any subsequent stages in the procurement process.

5.

To scope and inform options for the future operation and governance of a new mortuary.

Any and all responses to this preliminary consultation will be used to inform the Council's thinking and next steps and will be treated as confidential.

The Council will be happy to respond to written questions or queries from interested parties in relation to clarification or additional information.

Any such requests and the responses will be appropriately anonymised and shared via the Council's procurement portal with access to all those who have responded to the consultation.

This preliminary market consultation will not result in the identification of, or shortlisting for, any final delivery partner.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

This exercise aims to provide high level

This exercise aims to provide high level information regarding the procurement of suitable mortuary services on behalf of the Berkshire Coroners Service.

02

To establish the level of market interest

To establish the level of market interest in working with the Council to deliver and operate a new mortuary to serve the administrative area of Berkshire.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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