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Friday 7th September 2007

Doing business with the Council


A reminder about Bradford Council's procurement system:

There is now a way potential contractors can register to be included on Bradford Council's list of Approved Contractors. Go to the Council's website at www.bradford,gov.uk Click on 'Business', then click on 'Doing business with the Council', then onApproved list of contractors'. There is a link to the Supplier and Contract Management System that businesses can register with, to go on the list. The following link should take you straight there:
www.bradford.gov.uk/government_politics_and_public_administration/public_administration/Procurement/procurement_approved_list/

The Alito public procurement site is used by many public sector organisations in Yorkshire and the Humber. You can look at open tenders on the site at https://scms.secure.alito.co.uk/yth/public/Tenders.cmd


There is also a clear summary of Bradford Council's procurement system at:
http://www.bradford.gov.uk/business_and_industry/business_sectors/how_to_do_Business_with_Bradford.htm

This includes the following information:

"Contracts under 10,000
Contracts at this level are normally set up direct by individual Council departments. A simple process to ensure value for money is obtained, will be followed.

Contracts Valued between 10,000 - 75,000
Many contracts valued between 10,000 and 75,000 are established by individual departments around the Council but some are established by the Corporate Procurement Unit . A minimum of four quotations from suppliers are needed and the tendering process should be straight forward.

Contracts Valued between 75,000 and 144,000
Supplies and Service contracts which fall between these values will be advertised regionally or nationally. The Council often advertises tenders in the local press (e.g. Yorkshire Post on a Thursday) or a relevant trade journal and also uses the http://scms.alito.co.uk website to advertise contracts where often tender documents can be downloaded and submitted back on-line to the council. The Procurement Unit will be involved in tendering most supply and service contracts of this value.

Contracts over 144,000 in Value
All supplies and most service contracts over 144,000 in value together with works contracts valued over 3.8m need to be advertised throughout the European Union under the EU Public Procurement Regulations. Contracts over the EU thresholds are advertised in the Official Journal of the European (OJEU) Union and can be accessed at their website (below). Contracts advertised in the OJEU are also often advertised locally or on the council tenders website. Again the Procurement Unit will normally be involved in the tendering process of supply and services contracts of this value."

Getting ready for tendering? West Yorkshire Social Enterprise Link run a Tender Readiness Toolkit workshop. The next events are on 5th October at Leeds Media Centre and 2nd November at Huddersfield Methodist Mission. For further information or to book your place contact Lucy Piatkowski on lucy.p@sesc.info or telephone 01924 241330.
These events are being organised by Social Enterprise Link.

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