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The City of Liverpool College

The City of Liverpool College Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) Marketing and Communications

Business ServicesCPV 79342000
Value£150k
Deadline31 Jul 2027
Published26 Nov 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 26 Nov 2025371 days leftCloses 31 Jul 2027
Who to contact
Tina Smith
tina.smith@liv-coll.ac.uk
+44 1512523243

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£150ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The City of Liverpool College intend to create a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for our Marketing provision over 4 x separate lots.

Suppliers who are awarded a place on the DPS will be invited to participate in a further mini-competition for each of the 4 x lots.The DPS will be in place until such time as the College no longer requires it or it is replace by a revised DPS.

All communications with The City of Liverpool College should be carried out using the correspondence section of the In-Tend Portal.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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All communications with The City of Liverpool

All communications with The City of Liverpool College should be carried out using the correspondence section of the In-Tend Portal.

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

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
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
077312-2025
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