Supply of Interactive Audio Visual & IT Hardware Solutions and Consultancy
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Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3,500 square kilometres.
It has an annual expenditure of circa. £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.5m.
The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.
Commercial Services is one of the largest trading organisations of its kind in Europe with a turnover in excess of £600 million and employing over 700 people from its base in Kent.
Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations.
These include local government, education establishments, the care sector and the emergency services.
KCS Professional Services, is a trading unit of Commercial Services and provides a purchasing, warehousing and distribution service to a wide ranging customer base within local government and associated public bodies in Kent, neighbouring counties and across the UK.
The Central Buying Consortium (CBC) is a group of County, Borough and City Councils.
The purpose of which is to improve the effectiveness, by co-ordination, of local authority purchasing with the object of effecting savings in public expenditure for the benefit of its members.
CBC procures approximately £750m goods and services per annum.
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, Kent County Council via KCS Professional Services wishes to create a Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the supply and delivery of Interactive Audio Visual, IT Hardware Solutions and Consultancy.
The procurement process adopted by the Contracting Authority is based upon the 'Open' Procedure, as detailed in the 'Public Contract Regulations 2015'.
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Tracing its roots back to 1902, as
Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations.
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, Kent County Council via KCS Professional Services wishes to create a Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the supply and delivery of Interactive Audio Visual, IT Hardware Solutions and Consultancy.
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