UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Hampshire County Council (HCC) require servicing of their workshop equipment and tools, to support the servicing and maintenance of their vehicle fleets. This Framework covers the supply, delivery, installation, commissioning, maintenance, testing, certification and lifecycle management of a full range of garage and workshop tools/equipment for the servicing, maintenance and inspection of vehicles, including cars, LGVs, HGVs, plant and specialist fleet. The Framework includes both new equipment purchases and ongoing management services for equipment already owned by the Authority. The Framework will have a single supplier appointed, enabling a simple purchase order call-off mechanism. The successful supplier will be responsible for providing servicing and maintenance in various workshop locations across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as needed.

Hampshire County Council (the Authority) is tendering a contract for courier services to support Hampshire Scientific Services ("HSS"). HSS provides scientific advisory and analytical services to UK public authorities and is accredited to high quality standards required by Government. Under the Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) arrangements, HSS coordinates the transport of time‑critical food and feed enforcement samples from East Suffolk ports to designated laboratories in Kent and Hampshire. These samples are collected for enforcement testing and are highly time‑critical, with some requiring collection, delivery, and analysis within a strict 24 hour window. Maintaining chain of custody, sample integrity, and timely delivery is critical to statutory enforcement work. The purpose of this procurement is to appoint a suitably capable same‑day courier to deliver a robust, reliable and responsive service. The supplier will be required to provide secure, direct transport that preserves chain of custody and sample integrity, avoiding hub consolidation or processes that add delay or risk, and to provide scalable capacity to meet weekday demand with occasional weekend requirements. The contract will be for an initial period of 19 months, with the option to extend for up to 2 additional 12-month periods. The Authority reserves the option to reduce the 19 month term by 7 days (1 week), so that the initial term would end on 29th June 2028. Any additional periods would then also reflect that amended date. This is to ensure this contract is co-terminus with the Authority's underlying contracts with the ports set out in the Specification.

Hampshire’s older persons’ population is projected to increase by 56% between 2020 and 2035, from 153,000 to 239,000. Within Havant, the numbers are forecast to increase by 53% during the same period, with the over-75 population increasing from 15,000 to 23,000. Havant is one of the few remaining Hampshire boroughs without provision for older people’s Extra Care Housing and is identified as a priority area in the Extra Care Older Adults’ Brochure 2023.1. The Havant borough area also has the second highest number of residents referred to Residential Care homes across Hampshire, with the County Council purchasing circa 150 new placements per year in Havant. It is predicted that the delivery and build of an affordable Extra Care Housing scheme will divert many residents from high-cost Residential Care placements into Extra Care Housing. In January 2024, the Council commissioned an independent organisation to understand the demand for affordable Extra Care Housing across Hampshire over the next 20 years. This analysis indicates that 154 units of affordable Extra Care Housing will be required in the Havant Borough area over this period. The above-mentioned population increase will continue to build further pressure on existing provision as the increasing needs and demands on services for older people continue to rise. The proposal is to procure a provider to design, build, and operate a circa 70-bed Extra Care facility on the Dunsbury Way site in Havant. The provider will be responsible for the operation of the facility, including the rental and maintenance of the building. To support the scheme's sustainability and accessibility, and to support the provider's ability to secure additional funding, Hampshire County Council will be offering a void guarantee as part of this procurement. The site will be leased to the provider on a 250-year lease, with an approximated value of £1,100,000. The provider will be responsible for developing the design, obtaining planning permission, and letting the units at an affordable rent within Hampshire’s Extra Care letting arrangements. The successful service provider will be required to operate the scheme for a minimum of 20 years, after which they will be able to sell the scheme for continued operation as an Extra Care Housing site. The provider or consortium will need to include a Registered Housing Provider. As Hampshire County Council requires the units to be let at Affordable Rent tenure only, as defined in the National Planning Policy Framework, the Provider will need to secure both Homes England funding and its own capital contribution to develop and deliver the scheme. The maximum contract value of £2,971,233 includes the land at Dunsbury Way in Havant, which has an estimated value of £1,100,000 on a 250-year lease at a peppercorn rent, and a maximum value of £1,871,233 over the initial 20 years from the site becoming operational.