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Reading Borough Council

Procurement Consultancy Support - AWARD

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79400000 79410000
Value£300k
Awarded3 Oct 2017
Published8 Mar 2018
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£300ktotal 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.

The brief

The Council is looking for expert help to support its procurement function and the achievement of significant savings on its spend with third party suppliers.

This procurement is a further competition under lot 10 of the ESPO framework agreement 664-17 Consultancy Services.

Whist the prime focus of the brief is to support more effective procurement and commissioning activity across the Council, it is anticipated that the successful contractor will need to provide access to a wide range of subject matter expertise covering a number of the specialist lots within the framework agreement.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Council is looking for expert help

The Council is looking for expert help to support its procurement function and the achievement of significant savings on its spend with third party suppliers.

02

Whist the prime focus of the brief

Whist the prime focus of the brief is to support more effective procurement and commissioning activity across the Council, it is anticipated that the successful contractor will need to provide access to a wide range of subject matter expertise covering a number of the specialist lots within the framework agreement.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
RBC 00000319 - AWARD
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