Market Engagement – Expression of Interest for Belfast public bike hire scheme

Expressions of Interest are invited from parties interested in supplying, installing, operating, maintaining and publicising a public bike hire scheme for Belfast targeting a ‘go-live’ date in March 2024. Belfast City Council currently has a public bike hire scheme that was launched in 2015 as a high profile active travel project for Belfast and has been running successfully since then. This request is issued by Belfast City Council to seek and obtain expressions of interest (EOI) from organisations interested in setting up a New Public Bike Hire scheme in Belfast and / or supplying and operating the existing scheme. This is a market testing exercise which will be used to inform the next stage of the planned future competitive tendering process and does not exclude other interested parties from entering the next stage. The current Public Bike scheme has up to 60 stations with a capacity of up to 600 bikes.