The Association of North East Councils trading as NEPO intend to establish a 48 month framework agreement for the provision of a managed remarketing service, for the disposal by auction of vehicles and plant. Contractors will be responsible for the collection, preparation for sale, storage, remarketing, sale of vehicles and plant and similar assets with the prompt return of sale proceeds after disposal. The sale process must be managed by the contractors to return optimum residual sale proceeds after disposal. The sale process must be managed by the contractor/s to return value. NEPO intends to make this framework agreement available for use by all contracting authorities throughout all administrative regions of the UK (as defined by the Public Contracts regulations 2015).

NEPO are using an open procedure for the procurement of this framework agreement. The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTendering system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering system. If not already registered, suppliers should register on the NEPO eTendering system at

https://procontract.due-north.com/Register

Tender responses must be submitted using the link above. Tender responses submitted via postal or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time critical assistance on submitting your tender response, please contact the system support team on 0330 0050352. For non time critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information, etc., please contact the Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com this will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk. Successful suppliers will enter into a framework agreement in a form which is set out in the procurement documents. NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of services which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any client using the framework agreement pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof.