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Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, trading as Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority (the 'Authority'), is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified organisations to participate in an early market engagement process with the view of assessing the market's ability and capacity for the design and installation of a Working at Height Training Rig at the Authority's Witham Fire Station Training Centre (29 Hatfield Rd, Witham CM8 1EG). The Authority's core technical requirements are listed below as follows: • The contractor will be responsible for designing, manufacturing, and installing a Working at Height training rig, which must be suitable both for internal and external use; • The training rig is to be installed at the Authority's Training Centre located at 29 Hatfield Road, Witham, CM8 1EG; • The training rig must be capable of carrying up to twelve (12) trainee fire fighters at any one time; • The training rig must be designed and manufactured to all current relevant UK and EU safety standards; and • The contractor will be required to start on site late September 2022 with a target completion date of late December 2022. The estimated budget envelope for the delivery of all technical requirements is £40,000. The Authority will also reserve the right to hold virtual market engagement meetings with those suppliers who are able to meet the core technical requirements outlined in this Notice. This will enable the Authority's Property Services Team to obtain further details on technical, financial and programme delivery matters. Contractors who are interested in participating in this early market engagement process can express an interest by sending an email to the Authority's Category Manager (Property) - Elli Nikolaou (elli.nikolaou@essex-fire.gov.uk) with the following information: • Contractor Name; • Key Contractor Contact Name: • Key Contractor Contact Email Address: • Key Contractor Contact Telephone No: • Confirmation that the core technical requirements can be met in full The deadline for responding to this Early Market Engagement Notice is 17:00 on Friday 9th September. Please kindly be advised that the publication of this Early Engagement Notice document in no way commits the Authority or any of its advisers, contractors and/or agents to commence any subsequent procurement exercise to award any contract.

The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to ask for interest from the market to attend a pre-market engagement event at an online Microsoft Teams event on 22nd May 2024 or in person at Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters on 24th May 2024 (attendance for either event must be confirmed in advance) to discuss the requirements of supply and transportation of depolluted vehicles for operational training purposes. The Authority will use the events to gather information and discuss the specification of requirements which will be used for any future tender exercise that may take place. This is not an invitation to tender and failure to participate will not exclude any providers from any future tender that may take place.

The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to view current Inventory Management software (and relevant hardware) solutions available and ask for interest from the market to a host a virtual session to demonstrate how their solutions will meet our current and future requirements. The Authority will use the demonstrations to gather information and produce an outcome-based specification of requirements which will be used for any future tender exercise that may take place.

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The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to view current Workforce Management Solution available and ask for interest from the market to a host a virtual session to demonstrate how their solutions will meet our current and future requirements. The Authority will use the demonstrations to gather information and produce an outcome-based specification of requirements which will be used for any future tender exercise that may take place.

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Essex Police currently own a small 25m firing range which we can use for practice and training. However, a significant amount of training and qualification shooting must take place on a 50m firing range. Essex Police are keen to understand what Firing Range facilities exist in the county, that could be made available. This opportunity is available via the 7 Force Commercial Tendering Portal. To register, visit https://7force.force.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk If you are already registered on the Portal, you can login here: https://7force.force.com/login