Published date: 27 February 2019

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 1 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Travel management services - 63516000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £4,000,000

Procurement reference

Travel-01

Published date

27 February 2019

Approach to market date

1 April 2019

Contract start date

10 August 2019

Contract end date

9 August 2023

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?

Yes


Description

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) was established in 1917 to honour the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars.

Our work covers cemeteries and memorials at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories which requires extensive worldwide travel.

Key areas include but are not limited to:

- Hotel Accommodation,
- Rail Travel and Bookings,
- Travel Management Services, and
- Air Travel.

Our current contract travel management contract, which provides both an on-line booking and bureau service, expires on 10th August 2019 and work has commenced on the development of the forthcoming tender exercise, including canvassing the views of the various stakeholders

We are not, at this stage, asking suppliers to notify us of their interest in this tender, nor will we be providing any additional information to that provided in this notice, prior to the tender being issued.

Instead, we are advising interested parties that the tender will be conducted using the CWGC e-Procurement portal - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cwgc/aspx/Home and are inviting interested parties to register with the portal prior to the tender being issued.


More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2018/2019 £1,000,000

Additional text

When registering with the portal, please complete as much of the information as possible.

When entering a contact email address for both the Primary and Additional Users, you are advised to use a generic address which can be readily accessed by more than one person i.e. "tenders@xyz.com ", rather than a personal address such as "RKipling@xyz.com ". This will ensure that any communications sent by us via the portal will be read even if an individual in unavailable through leave or sickness, for example.

Also, you can include as many "Business Classifications" as you think are appropriate (the wild card for searching is "_") but, as a minimum, can you please include "4155 - Travel - Air", "4300 - Travel - Hotels", and"4150 - Travel - Train/Ferry/Coach/Bus" - which are the closest internal matches for the forthcoming project.


About the buyer

Contact name

Peter Lloyd

Address

2 Marlow Road
MAIDENHEAD
SL67DX
England

Telephone

01628 507236

Email

peter.lloyd@cwgc.org

Website

www.cwgc.org