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OpenStage · planning

Stevenage Borough Council

SBC 0325 Pre-Procurement Market Engagement Questionnaire for Water Inflatable Feature and Ancillary Activities

Leisure GoodsCPV 37416000
Value£4.0m
Deadline
Published23 Apr 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
procurement@stevenage.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£4.0mtotal contract value
median £78k
this tender£0£4.3m

This is a large award for Musical, Sports & Leisure Goods — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 1,946 valued Musical, Sports & Leisure Goods tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

This notice is a pre market engagement exercise and not a call of tenders.

To provide an Aquatic Adventure facility and ancillary pay and play activities for example pedaloes, stand up paddle boards etc for the 2025 season for 4 years.

The operator must be accredited and have personnel with at least five years experience with providing such a facility in a similar environment.

The bidder must invest in all the equipment required to operate the facility including an inflatable unit which needs to be compliant with ISO 25649-1:2017 Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water or subsequent replacement ISO/FDIS 25649-1 Bidders must provide further investment into required infrastructure e.g. changing rooms, showers, toilets lockers, pontoon lake weights and customer equipment, buoyancy aids, wet suits etc.

Accreditations are required for the facility and operation itself together with RLSS trained lifeguards.

For more details on the specification requirements refer to document 2.3 in the specification.

Bidders are required to meet all of the further requirements in 2.2.

This is a concession contract which will need to be fully operational for the 2025 season.

The concession will be based on a percentage of gross turnover of the concession contract.

The contract will be aligned to the specification documents and lease for the property.

Pre market engagement process To test the market and understand if operators can meet the requirements of the specification and the set up date for the 2025 season.

If an operator can meet the criteria a direct award may be given or if more than one operator meets the criteria there will be a mini competition over a 2 week period.

Clarification/question deadline 30 April , submission 7 May.

Operators are to submit the questionnaire by the submission deadline Documents and further details are available on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/aspx/Home

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To provide an Aquatic Adventure facility

To provide an Aquatic Adventure facility and ancillary pay and play activities for example pedaloes, stand up paddle boards etc for the 2025 season for 4 years.

02

The operator must be accredited and have

The operator must be accredited and have personnel with at least five years experience with providing such a facility in a similar environment.

03

The bidder must invest in all

The bidder must invest in all the equipment required to operate the facility including an inflatable unit which needs to be compliant with ISO 25649-1:2017 Floating leisure articles for use on and in the water or subsequent replacement ISO/FDIS 25649-1.

04

Bidders must provide further investment into required

Bidders must provide further investment into required infrastructure e.g. changing rooms, showers, toilets lockers, pontoon lake weights and customer equipment, buoyancy aids, wet suits etc.

05

Bidders are required to meet all

Bidders are required to meet all of the further requirements in 2.2.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05064b
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
016502-2025
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