Supply 2 Gov tendering site

[Gordon Brown]

Anybody got full access?

I have the daily email of contracts up for tender whoch are rarely up my street but today there is one but I only get the outline as I just have the basic free service and rarely does anything in my area come up. Usually I just google the reference and find the tender on the home site but this one is elusive;

If you have access and can paste or PM me the client that would be GREAT!



Entry Date: 26/02/2008
Reference: S2G08022651990/01
Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Nature of contract: Service contract

Research Consultancy Support.
The Awarding Authority wishes to appoint a consultant to manage its research activities for the period April 2008 to March 2010.
The consultant will work closely with one of the Awarding Authority’s programme managers and will also report to the Awarding Authority's Chief Executive.
The Awarding Authority has identified a specific role in contributing to ...

[ukvoyager.info]

FYI, anything over €200k will need to go to Europe OJEC. Register free for email updates... http://ted.europa.eu

BTW, a contract notice usually means it has been awarded. You really want to look for PIN notices to express an interest.

I wouldn't worry if you don't understand any of it, give the contact on the notice a ring and they will talk you through it.

[Gordon Brown]

ukvoyager.info said:

FYI, anything over €200k will need to go to Europe OJEC. Register free for email updates... http://ted.europa.eu

BTW, a contract notice usually means it has been awarded. You really want to look for PIN notices to express an interest.

I wouldn't worry if you don't understand any of it, give the contact on the notice a ring and they will talk you through it.

Thanks for that, it is smaller contracts I am interested in although I have been duped by the 'contract award' before!

[jamoor]

I have never understood why some companies charge you to email you the information on tenders, when the ted site does it for free.

[Gordon Brown]

jamoor said:

I have never understood why some companies charge you to email you the information on tenders, when the ted site does it for free.

Supply2gov send a daily email but the free version is regionalised and only includes full details of low value tenders, and then not all of them. You have to pay to get all tenders nationally and at high/low value. What annoys me is that this is a government site, yet they ask you to pay for a service to business. My experience has been that some of the public sector tenders on suply2gov in my area have tame contractors in the wings and they are only advertising because they have to, and that they over complicate things, asking for 3 years of acounts, and all my policies on EO, diversity, emergency planning, union recognition, data protection etc for £10k of work.

Thanks for the TED link, there may be something from that worth looking at, as I wouldn't turn down £200K!

[jamoor]

Gordon Brown said:

jamoor said:

I have never understood why some companies charge you to email you the information on tenders, when the ted site does it for free.

Supply2gov send a daily email but the free version is regionalised and only includes full details of low value tenders, and then not all of them. You have to pay to get all tenders nationally and at high/low value. What annoys me is that this is a government site, yet they ask you to pay for a service to business. My experience has been that some of the public sector tenders on suply2gov in my area have tame contractors in the wings and they are only advertising because they have to, and that they over complicate things, asking for 3 years of acounts, and all my policies on EO, diversity, emergency planning, union recognition, data protection etc for £10k of work.

Thanks for the TED link, there may be something from that worth looking at, as I wouldn't turn down £200K!

Is there laws that force government departments to put their tenders on there, or is it optional, which tenders go on there exactly?

We have had worse, hows all the palava for


£250 worth of items!!!

They have 10 page questionaires of total nonsense. Even the person responsible for putting out the tenders don't know what the questions mean!

[gumball3K]

Be careful with this website the sales and marketing staff are not following the correct guidelines and processes with new customers. I had a problem with a service used for a trial version only which they later they made me enter an agreement through their website without me even knowing.

[StevieBee]

jamoor said:

Is there laws that force government departments to put their tenders on there, or is it optional, which tenders go on there exactly?

Generally speaking, any public sector contract exceeding £75k in any financial year will have to go through EU tender portals. Some organisations choose to go this route or other tender routes for lesser value contracts. There are exceptions but procurement officers are becoming increasingly anal which explains why £10k jobs pop up on these things with increasing regularity.