Furniture for Educational and Non-Educational Environments
This is a large award for Furniture & Furnishings — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,729 valued Furniture & Furnishings tenders in our corpus.
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 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.
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 with 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 309 parish/town councils.
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, KCS wishes to create a Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the supply and delivery of Furniture for Educational and Non-Educational Environments.
The requirement will include but not be limited to educational furniture to meet the needs of early years primary, secondary and further education (tables, desks, seating, staging, dining, storage and teaching walls) - non-educational furniture to cover general office, reception and generic breakout areas (office desks, seating, storage, display, reception and breakout).
In addition there is a requirement for design and concept innovation as well as full project work from design through to delivery and installation.
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, KCS wishes to create a Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the supply and delivery of Furniture for Educational and Non-Educational Environments.
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