How to win: Christmas Lights - 2026-2029

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Elmton with Creswell parish council wish to enter a three-year contract for 40 Christmas lights on lighting columns in Creswell (to be rented or brought, installed, taken down and stored). Thirty nine lighting columns are already in use and have the requisite sockets and timers fitted to the lighting columns. However, one lighting column will need a new socket fitted. The lighting columns are all on Elmton Road. Three-year contract for 2026, 2027 and 2028: • 39 lights (on lighting columns with existing sockets and timers) • 1 Light (on lighting columns with existing timers but requires a new socket) • Delivery and installation • Storage of lights between Christmases • Will be all on Elmton Road, Creswell. • Coloured LED lights • From before the last Thursday of November until 12th night • 2 metre high lights, at least

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