Menu
Providing you with market updates, statistics and tendering leads.
This week’s headlines, offering you leads for upcoming tendering opportunities and updates about the public sector marketplace.
The government has proposed two changes to the Procurement Bill – which will soon go into its Report Stage in Parliament.
The changes are:
The Procurement Bill aims to make accessing the market easier, and we will provide you with more details about the associated changes when they are announced.
An example of how the proposed changes to the Procurement bill will help reduce competition for UK tenders.
The UK will host the world’s first summit on AI safety this Autumn. The summit will bring together key countries, leading tech companies and researchers to set safety standards and assess the major risks of AI.
This will likely have an impact on the requirements within future public sector tech procurements.
The rising risk of wildfires could see a requirement for new firefighting equipment.
Firefighting Equipment is just one of many keywords we have to help you stay aware of relevant tendering opportunities.
A study to explore the feasibility of a mass transport network for Bristol could cost millions, but the West of England metro mayor thinks it is worth it. Dan Norris said he wanted to consider all possibilities, even though he acknowledged that the project, which could cost anywhere from £4bn to £18bn, was “unlikely” to happen. An underground network is one of the options being examined.
The former Tir John landfill site in Port Tennant will soon become Swansea Council’s first solar farm. The council has given the green light to install 5,500 panels on the 11-hectare site. The solar farm will produce electricity for a wastewater treatment plant a mile away.
This funding is part of a wider £15m package to help increase access to EV charging across Wales.
The council plans to install solar panels on fifteen of its buildings, including the Kelvin Hall, Emirates Arena and Royal Concert Hall. The scheme, which will cost £2 million, could reduce the energy bills of these facilities by £750,000 a year.
Land off Gatekeeper Way in Worksop will be the site of a new primary school, after planners gave the green light. The school will be built in two stages as part of a housing development in the north of the town. It will have room for 315 primary and 26 nursery pupils, and is planned to open in September 2024.
The Station Quarter project in Telford, which aims to create new homes, businesses and jobs, is likely to get the go-ahead. The council wants to transform the land between the train station and the shopping centre in the town’s original office district. The first phase of the project includes 189 homes, a hotel and a digital skills and enterprise hub with a café.
Here we share the tender and prior information notices that caught our attention this week.
Authority: Aberdeen City Council
Published: 7 June 2023
Deadline: 10 July 2023
Description: Aberdeen City Council are seeking responses from experienced festival/event production companies to curate and produce the main programme for Spectra, Scotland’s Festival of Light, to be held in February 2024.
Authority: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Published: 7 June 2023
Deadline: 12 July 2023
Description: The Facilities Management Contract provides key services to all properties at 93 locations across the UK with a diverse range of properties and facilities, that includes broadcast studios, offices, production, and technical facilities.
Authority: Denbighshire County Council
Published: 7 June 2023
Estimated go-live: 19 July 2023
Description: Following the success of the North Wales Construction Framework 2 (NWCF2) and the benefits in procurement time, cost and value added provided by it, the six North Wales Authorities wish to continue to have a collaborative Framework to procure regional construction projects. It is proposed to renew the current Framework and extend its scope to cater for every construction project over 250K GBP threshold and to incorporate the lessons learned from the current iteration.
Authority: Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton)
Published: 5 June 2023
Estimated go-live: 19 June 2023
Description: The Framework Agreement shall operate as a supplies agreement, across the United Kingdom, including Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. The scope of the Framework Agreement will be to supply materials to the public sector, through various delivery service models and provide associated services to maintain a sustainable supply chain, using technology to help with account management (such as account card solutions) and provide sector specific operational solutions, to help maintain the up-keep of property (commercial, industrial and domestic (but not limited to)).
Authority: Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton)
Published: 2 June 2023
Deadline: 7 July 2023
Description: Wrexham County Borough Council (WCBC) wish to appoint a suitably qualified consultant to produce a Full Business Case for the Museum of Two Halves project that meets the requirements of HM Treasury Green Book for presentation to Wrexham County Borough Council and the Welsh Government. The consultant will also be required to review, challenge and support the development of the Business Plan (being developed internally) for the new joint Football Museum for Wales and Wrexham Museum.
New tendering opportunities published between 2 – 8 June 2023. Live opportunities as of 9 June 2023.
No Data Found
No Data Found
No Data Found
No Data Found
Public sector tender alerts
Market reporting tools
Training courses
Bid writing consultancy
Public procurement news
Tendering guides and advice
This is a Proactis company product.
© Proactis 2022
