Published date: 25 November 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 5 January 2026, 9am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Artistic and literary creation and interpretation services - 92310000

  • Artistic services - 92312000

  • Services provided by authors, composers, sculptors, entertainers and other individual artists - 92312200

    • Services provided by sculptors - 92312230

    • Services provided by individual artists - 92312250

Location of contract

SG17 5TQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-33-4766-CBC-1862-T-AS

Published date

25 November 2025

Closing date

5 January 2026

Closing time

9am

Contract start date

2 March 2026

Contract end date

31 May 2026

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The council wishes to procure an artist or artists to create 2-4 public art works at the new Leighton Leisure Centre. This might end up as one contract of 2/3 contracts. This will be funded out of S106 public realm money. It is a two stage procurement process with shortlisted artists paid a set sum to cover their design days.

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. Last date for receiving questions on the In-Tend system: 19th December 2025.

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 5th January 2026 at 09.00.
Quotations received after that time will be excluded.

More information

Links

Additional text

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Tony Sharpstone

Address

Priory House
Chicksands
Shefford
SG17 5TQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

03003008000

Email

tony.sharpstone@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk