Christmas Lights 2025-2027

Please send all tenders to clerk@leicesterforesteast-pc.gov.uk by 12 noon on Friday 9th May 2025. Paper tenders will not be accepted.

Leicester Forest East parish council wish to enter a three-year contract for 37 Christmas lights on lighting columns in Leicester Forest East (to be rented, installed, taken down and stored). Twenty lighting columns are already in use and have the requisite sockets and timers fitted to the lighting columns. However, an additional 17 lights are desired for the 2025-20257 contract and these lighting columns will need sockets and timers fitted. The lighting columns are mainly on the A47, with two in the parish hall car park and two on Stafford Leys Road.

Three-year contract for 2025, 2026 and 2027: • 20 lights (on lighting columns with existing sockets and timers) • Plus 17 additional lights (so 37 lights in total) • Plus 17 additional sockets • Plus 17 additional timers • Delivery and installation • Storage of lights between Christmases • Will be mainly on the A47 (Hinckley Road), Leicester Forest East but also Stafford Leys and two at the parish hall car park. • Coloured lights • Lights to be on 24/7 • From before the last Thursday of November until 12th night • 2 metre high lights, at least

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