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Essex County Council

Provision of training venues for National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) Courses

HospitalityCPV 55000000 55100000
Value£960k
Awarded12 Jul 2015
Published16 Jun 2015
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£960ktotal contract value
median £606k
this tender£0£7.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Hospitality & Catering band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 3,335 valued Hospitality & Catering tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Essex County Council (The Authority) is putting in place a Contract for the provision of training venues to host its National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) Courses which are delivered on behalf of Essex Police.

The Authority is seeking a training venue in three areas of Essex for the delivery of NDORS training courses.

As such the requirement is split into three areas (LOTs): (1) Brentwood/Thurrock; (2) Basildon; and (3) Colchester.

Venues must be easy to find and located within a 2 mile drive from major routes (e.g.

A12, A13, A127, M25, M11, A120, A130 etc.).

The proposed contract is for a period of 3.5 years with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months.

Suppliers Instructions - How to Express Interest in this Tender: Potential Tenderers must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender round by following these instructions: 1.

Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to email2workspace-prod+ECC +WS508924705+p4i7@ansmtp.ariba.com asking to be invited to this event and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details.

2.

If you have more than one registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage.

If you are not registered in Ariba at all, go to http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (PLEASE NOTE: 35% completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100% completion.) Once you have been invited to the project all communication will need to be via the project message board.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Venues must be easy to find

Venues must be easy to find and located within a 2 mile drive from major routes (e.g.

02

Potential Tenderers must contact ECC to request

Potential Tenderers must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender round by following these.

03

If you have more than one registered

If you have more than one registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each.

04

Ariba cloud registration, you do not need

Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100% completion.).

05

Once you have been invited to

Once you have been invited to the project all communication will need to be via the project message board.

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

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