RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · planning

Department for Business and Trade

Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) Outsourced Product Testing

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71632200
Value£35.0m
Deadline
Published29 Nov 2024
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
commercialbpo@businessandtrade.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£35.0mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£37.8m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) expects to publish a contract opportunity relating to its requirement for outsourced product testing for the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS).

DBT intends to introduce a multi-year, multi-lot framework for the provision of various types of testing across multiple years.

DBT are requesting Expressions of Interest ("EOI") pertaining to this requirement.

Please email: commercialbpo@businessandtrade.gov.uk by 10th January 2025 in order to register your interest.

At this stage, DBT wishes to understand the size and capability of the supply market.

Information that it gathers will be used to refine requirements to ensure they are fit for suppliers to deliver against.

Meetings will also be held directly with interested participants at a future date, subject to capacity.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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At this stage, DBT wishes to understand

At this stage, DBT wishes to understand the size and capability of the supply market.

02

Information that it gathers will be used

Information that it gathers will be used to refine requirements to ensure they are fit for suppliers to deliver against.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c108
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
038553-2024
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