Published date: 12 December 2019

Last edited date: 12 December 2019

This notice was replaced on 4 May 2020

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 4 May 2020)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Travel agency, tour operator and tourist assistance services - 63500000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,000,000,000

Procurement reference

NEPO507

Published date

12 December 2019

Closing date

18 December 2019

Contract start date

1 August 2020

Contract end date

31 July 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Association of North East Councils Trading as the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of a Travel Management Service for the purpose of booking all rail and air travel tickets, all hotel accommodation and any other ancillary requirements related to business travel, as provided by Travel Management Companies (TMC). The Future Framework Agreement will replace the existing NEPO507 Travel Management Services Framework Agreement which expires 31.07.20

More information

Links

Additional text

The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTender system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTender System. If not already registered, candidates should register on the NEPO eTender system at https://procontract.due-north.com/regirster. Tenders must be submitted using the link above. Tenders submitted via post or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your tender please contact the system support team on 0330 0050352. For non time-critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information etc, please contact Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com. This will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk.

NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of goods (if any) which will be placed with the successful supplier by any contracting authority using the framework contract persuant to this process and accepts no liability there of.

About the buyer

Contact name

Nick McDonald

Address

The Guildhall, Sandhill
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE13AF
England

Telephone

0191 638 0040

Email

Nick.McDonald@nepo.org

Website

https://procontract.due-north.com/Register