Published date: 28 April 2017

Withdrawn early engagement


Closing date: 23 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Miscellaneous food products - 15800000

Location of contract

North West

Procurement reference

Chris Ridings - Lancashire Procurement Service/2

Published date

28 April 2017

Closing date

23 February 2018

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL PROCUREMENT - SUPPLIER ENGAGEMENT EVENT FOR FOOD AND DRINK SUPPLIERS

Lancashire County Council is holding a procurement / supplier engagement event aimed at manufacturers / distributors of food and drinks.

This event is an introduction to Procurement which you may know as buying, contracting, tendering, purchasing or similar and is independent of any specific tender process.

The aims are:

• To help you achieve a better understand of how 'Procurement' works;
• To enable businesses to be in the best position to compete for local authority contracts;
• To help us understand your needs and how we can help to meet these.

Key topics to be covered include:

• An overview of Lancashire County Council's Food and Drink Procurement Portfolio;
• An introduction to Lancashire School Catering Service;
• Procurement at the Council;
• Understanding the procurement process;
• How to access tender opportunities;
• Hints and tips.

Event Details Below:

This event will take place at:
East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce (Reception 2)
Red Rose Court
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 5JR

Date: Thursday 24th November 2016
Time: 09:30am for registration

To book your place, please email:
Chris Ridings christopher.ridings@lancashire.gov.uk or
Darren Grantham d.grantham@chamberelancs.co.uk

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

LCC - Supplier Engagement Event for Food and Drink Suppliers

  • Early engagement
  • Published 31 October 2016

Links

Additional text

This is an advertisement for a Supplier Engagement Event. See above link for details.

About the buyer

Contact name

Chris Ridings or Darren Grantham

Address

2nd Floor, Christ Church Precinct
County Hall
Preston
PR1 8XJ
England

Telephone

01772 539403

Email

christopher.ridings@lancashire.gov.uk