Published date: 21 February 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 14 March 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

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Location of contract

SG17 5TQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-33-2871-CBC-1346-T-SR

Published date

21 February 2022

Closing date

14 March 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 July 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) is looking for an experienced and qualified consultant, or team of consultants to support the Library Strategy development, which will be prepared as a Supplementary Planning Document to provide evidence and policy to support the Council's Local Plan.

The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you through the quotation process. Questions asked together with the response, will be made available to all tenderers, to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all. If there is anything you are not sure about or need clarification on, please use the Correspondence facility within the In-tend electronic tendering system. The deadline for requesting clarifications is 12:00 noon on Thursday, 03 March 2022.

Completed Quotations and attachments should be submitted electronically by the due date via our In-tend electronic tendering system. Quotations must be uploaded via the "My Return" section of the system. Quotations submitted through the correspondence facility will not be considered. Your Quotation must be submitted via the In-tend system by no later than 12:00 noon on Friday, 11 March 2022. Quotations received after that time will be excluded.

More information

Links

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To express an interest, please log in or register on our electronic tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/centralbedfordshire in order to view the necessary tendering documents and respond accordingly.
Please note that once you have registered on In-tend a separate action (expressing an Interest) is required to access the documents, you must click on the actual Tender you wish to access.
We accept no liability if you have not expressed an interest in the tender.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Sam Rayner

Address

Priory House
Chicksands
Shefford
SG17 5TQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

0300 300 5595

Email

sam.rayner@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk