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Sheffield City Council

Business Travel and Associated Services

Business ServicesCPV 79997000
Value£700k
Deadline31 Jul 2026
Published1 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 1 Jul 20267 days leftCloses 31 Jul 2026
Who to contact
Rachael Ackernley
Rachael.Ackernley@sheffield.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£700ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

An established business travel managed service platform for staff members who occasionally need to travel across the Country (sometimes across the world) to undertake visits, attend meeting and conferences etc.

The system should allow bookings to be made from one central location without the need to undertake long search exercises from multiple sources.

It must also provide the Council with useful spend data and a single point of contact for all our travel needs.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

An established business travel managed service platform

An established business travel managed service platform for staff members who occasionally need to travel across the Country (sometimes across the world) to undertake visits, attend meeting and conferences etc.

02

The system should allow bookings to

The system should allow bookings to be made from one central location without the need to undertake long search exercises from multiple sources.

03

It must also provide the Council

It must also provide the Council with useful spend data and a single point of contact for all our travel needs.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c1a8
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
061909-2026
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