Selling to the Council

The Council purchases a wide range of goods and services from third parties. Obtaining best value is an essential requirement and one that cannot be achieved without the support of our suppliers, both large and small.

Contract opportunities

For details of our current and planned business opportunities see:

Contract notices

We also advertise opportunities in:

Initially, you will be invited to submit a quote or tender and given a deadline, which must be met.

Existing contracts

We contract out services where we are confident that this will ensure provision of high quality services and is the most cost effective option. We currently have a number of large contracts see:

Existing Council contracts

Working with local businesses

The Council recognises that the local economy is dominated by a large number of small to medium businesses and is committed to doing all we can to place orders for goods and services with local businesses and organisations. To demonstrate the Councils support for local businesses, it has committed to the principles outlined in the National Small Business Friendly Concordat.

How to tender - training

As part of our commitment to support local businesses, we now run "How to Tender" workshops which are open to all potential or existing suppliers.

The workshops are designed to provide guidance to local business on the whole tender process, including document examples, evaluation processes and general feedback. Dates for the 2011 workshop programme will be published here shortly.

Further information

Should you have any queries that have not been answered on these webpages, please contact our Business Development Team, call 01993 861485 or follow us on Twitter