Pre-Market Engagement for Water Management- Instrumentation for water catchments

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Pre-Market Engagement</strong></span></p>
<p>Based on the information provided below about an upcoming tender, could you please advise:</p>
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<li>If this tender would be of interest to your organisation? If not, what could be changed / provided in order to make this opportunity more realisable for your organisation?</li>
<li>If the information provided in the in Appendix J and Appendix K, and the opportunity to undertake Site Visits during the tendering process would allow you to quote a fixed price for this tender? If not, what could be changed / what information needs to be provided to enable you to provide fixed prices?</li>
<li>If the use of stand-alone power sources at every site would increase project costs?</li>
<li>If you foresee any issues with being able to deliver and install this equipment in accordance with the Site List provided (Appendix J and Appendix K)?</li>
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<p>Please return your answers via ProContract Messaging by&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>12 Noon on Friday</strong>&nbsp;<strong>12</strong><strong>^th</strong><strong>&nbsp;March 2021</strong>.</span></p>
<p>Many thanks for your time and effort.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Procurement Lincolnshire</p>
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<p>Following the non-Award of an Open tender we ran Dec 2020-Feb 2021, Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) and its delivery partner (Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board (BSIDB)) are working on going back out to tender for the management, supply and preservation of water across the County. This procurement seeks to place instrumentation into water catchments to inform us of what happens to water from when rain hits the ground to when rivers outfall into the sea. The successful supplier shall provide and install the instrumentation and provide the technology to monitor and provide data relating to rainfall, water levels, flow rates and quality. This will enable the wider Lincolnshire based partners including LCC to:</p>
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<li>develop sustainable water management practices</li>
<li>protect the environment</li>
<li>become more efficient in providing water for people to use, which is not the case now.</li>
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<p>At the end of the contract, the Data will become publicly available and will be retained by BSIDB to enable them to make better informed water management decisions in the future so that water is managed more sustainably and resilience to climate change is increased.</p>
<p>Attached to this advert are&nbsp;<strong><u>Appendix J</u></strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><u>Appendix K</u></strong>&nbsp;that show Site Plans for 28 of the 38 sites at which equipment shall be installed (LCC shall be responsible for arranging access for the supplier to all sites ahead of each phase of installations and that site plans or photographs will be supplied for every site within the tender pack). Appendices J and K contain:</p>
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<li>photographs for the Standalone Sites</li>
<li><em>plans for the Pumping Station Sites</em></li>
<li><em>locations of power sources are in the buildings shown in the site plans (further details of these can be provided during Site Visits)</em></li>
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<p>&nbsp;Further to this information, suppliers will also be able to attend Site Visits to carry out their own surveys if they so desire</p>
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