T24-040ENV Tender for the Supply, Installation, Operation and Maintenance of Electric Vehicle Chargepoints for the NI Electric Vehicle Consortium

Derry City and Strabane District Council, as Lead Council of the Northern Ireland Electric Vehicle (EV) Consortium, is issuing this Invitation to Tender ("ITT") as an Open Tender exercise. This invitation to tender is to appoint a single supplier to initially supply, deliver, connect, commission, maintain and operate a minimum of 127 22kW Dual electric vehicle chargers, in residential areas within 9 of the Northern Ireland councils – as part of the consortium’s first ORCS (OnStreet Residential Chargepoint Scheme) project. The consortium reserves the right to amend the number of chargepoints should circumstances require this.

This tender is being led by Derry City and Strabane District Council, as the Lead Council of the NI EV (Electric Vehicle) Consortium, and is being procured on behalf of the following councils in Northern Ireland: Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Ards and North Down Borough Council, Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Mid Ulster District Council and Newry Mourne and Down District Council. The following organisations are also members of the NI EV Consortium: The Department for Infrastructure, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Department for the Economy, Sustainable NI and the Consumer Council. Representatives from the INTERREG VA-funded FASTER EV project are also members.

Each of the 127 22kW chargepoints are located in, or in close proximity to, a residential area - in a range of towns and cities - with some being ‘outside’ towns/ villages that are close to a residential area. The residential areas range in size. Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.