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**pre market engagement** inspection, servicing and repair of roll and fold seating units and/or tables

Education Authority · Education

In brief

Education Authority has announced plans to buy architecture and engineering and furniture work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.

The estimated value is £1,400,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 2 years, up to 5 years with extensions, starting 1 April 2027.

The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

Can I win this?

Competition

Typical: a median of 4 bids per contract for this buyer (from 63 awards in the last 12 months).

What the notice says

**Please note, this is not a Tender exercise** The Education Authority Northern Ireland (EANI), in preparation for a procurement process, wish to engage with the market to seek supplier views and feedback on potential approaches for a Contract for the Inspection, Servicing and Repair of Roll and Fold Seating Units and/or Tables. Market Feedback will be provided via the completion of a questionnaire, to be submitted via eTendersNI under Resource ID 6818092. There are no documents to be completed or provided other than the questionnaire. Any information gathered through this market consultation exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or nonparticipation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process.

How to bid

  1. Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
  2. Register your organisation on the Central Digital Platform (through Find a Tender) if you have not already. Suppliers need to be registered to take part in procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
  3. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 101231-2026

About the buyer

Education AuthorityLast 12 months

Procurements

134

Awards

44

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From notice 101231-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 26 October 2026. We last checked for changes on 26 October 2026.