Acquisition, Hire and Servicing and Repair of Manual Handling Equipment

What the buyer is asking for

Provision of Manual Handling Equipment for public prisions across England and Wales. These contracts will cover a range of manual handling equipment typically used within our operations such as forklifts, mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPS), pallet trucks, tugs and an option to hire equipment. This equipment supports a range of operational activities across the MoJ estate such as stores management, maintenance, and waste processing.

How this is scored

Published by the buyer. A winning response is written to these weightings, not to the question.

• qualityTechincal (Quality)Tenderers bidding for multiple Lots are required to submit a single set of responses to the Quality Questions. These responses will be evaluated once, and the resulting Quality score will be applied to all Lots for which the Tenderer has submitted a Tender. Quality questions will be scored using the 0-100 scoring scale outlined in the Scoring Guide. The maximum achievable quality score is 100%. There will be a minimum score of 50 for the quality questions.
• priceCommercial (Price)Each bid will be assessed on both price and quality using the Price per Quality Point (PQP) method. The bid price for each lot (net cost for the service) will be divided by the quality score for each lot to produce a PQP value. The quality score will be based on the evaluation criteria set out in this tender. A lower PQP value indicates better overall value for money. This approach ensures that both cost and quality are considered fairly.

5 lots

You can usually bid for one lot without bidding for all of them.

• Counterbalance Forklifts£737k

  Counterbalance Forklifts - Types such as Electric Forklifts, Diesel Forklifts, Counterbalance Forklifts

• Warehouse Specialist Trucks£400k

  Warehouse Specialist Trucks such as: Reach Truck, Very Narrow Aisle Vehicle, Low Level Order Picker, Powered Pallet Truck, Stacker, and Pallet Movers

• Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs)£300k

  Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs) such as Vertical Mast Lift, Articulated Boom and Scissor Lifts.

• Electric Tugs£100k

  Electric Tugs - battery operated

• Hire Options£300k

  Hire Options for Battery and Diesel forklifts

How contested is this?

Buyers publish how many bids they received. Across 25 comparable procurements we can tell you the typical field size, how often one of these goes uncontested, and whether the buyer awards on price or on quality.

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London

1. Tender notice publishedyesterday

   5 Nov 2026, 11:20 GMT
2. Clarification questions byin 19 days

   25 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
3. Submission deadlinein 25 days

   1 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
4. Award decision expected byin 117 days

   3 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT

Commercial outcome and contract awards

Nothing awarded yet

Notice history

6 events · 6 releases on Find a Tender

1. Pipeline or early engagement notice9 Sept 2026, 09:58 BST085209-2026
2. Notice published9 Sept 2026, 10:14 BST085223-2026
3. Pipeline or early engagement notice9 Sept 2026, 14:08 BST085416-2026
4. Notice published9 Sept 2026, 14:38 BST085447-2026
5. Notice published9 Sept 2026, 15:28 BST085477-2026
6. Tender notice5 Nov 2026, 11:20 GMT105082-2026

Documents

• Tender notice on Find a Tender