West Midlands Bike Share Scheme: Market Consultation

WMCA is seeking a single supplier to provide a high quality bike share scheme, with physical docking infrastructure with hybrid solutions, across the urban areas within each of the seven constituent authorities (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton). WMCA expects to procure a supplier through a competitive dialogue process to be commenced following a market consultation day to be held in WMCA Offices in Birmingham on Thursday 5th September 2019.

The purpose of the market consultation day is for WMCA to discuss its proposals for the scheme with potential suppliers with a view to preparing the procurement and informing the market of its procurement plans and requirements. Further details are available within the published PIN Notice: https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:39451... Expressing an interest in the Market Consultation Date: Please register your company on our e-tendering portal (Bravo Solution).

Instructions on how to register are located at: https://www.wmca.org.uk/media/1692/wmca_etendering_suppli... Further key detail around expressing an interest in this Exercise are listed below: Portal Website: https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk PIN Title: West Midland Bike Share Scheme PIN Bravo Solution Project Reference: project_293 - West Midlands Bike Share Scheme Bravo Solution Response Reference: pqq_104 - Bike Share Scheme - Market Consultation Response Only - NOT EVALUATED Once registered on the portal, please access Project_293 on our e-tendering portal and respond to PQQ_104 to submit company information and confirm your interest in attending the Market Consultation Event on 5th September. This is not a formal PQQ or expression of interest in a tender exercise.

It is to be used purely for suppliers to submit general information to WMCA and to express interest in taking part in a Market Consultation exercise. Following the Market Consultation exercise, feedback from the event will be considered and built into the wider tender opportunity, which is expected to be published around September 2019.

Please fill in the Qualification Envelope (Bravo Reference: pqq_104 - Bike Share Scheme - Market Consultation Response Only - NOT EVALUATED by the closing date of 17:00 30/08/2019. Additional information: Following the market consultation day, WMCA expects to publish a contract notice in relation to the opportunity in September 2019 with a preferred supplier being awarded a contract by March 2020.

Further information and a detailed specification will be contained in the tender documentation once the procurement is formally advertised following the market consultation day. The procurement process is being conducted pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and will be awarded as a services contract.