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SCDC is letting a Small Works Framework Contract (SWFC) that will comprise of several construction companies appointed to a below WTO threshold Framework Contract. This is compliant with the Public Contract Regulation 2015 (PCR2015). Whilst this is a contract to set-up a framework with SCDC, Parish Councils located within SCDC's district shall be entitled to use the contract at their discretion. SCDC therefore is looking for suitably qualified and experienced contractors in construction, who could provide a variety of different small construction related works to SCDC and any interested Parish Council, that are listed here: https://scambs.moderngov.co.uk/mgParishCouncilDetails.aspx?ls=17&sls=4&bcr=1 If you wish to apply for this contract please visit our electronic portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=d9e03d53-1f88-ec11-8110-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council- Fire Damage Rebuild Works at 8 Hayfield Avenue, Sawston, Cambridge CB22 3JZ If you wish to apply for this contract, please visit our electronic tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=66e802db-b098-ec11-8112-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council are seeking company to review and update previously published employment land, economic development and housing needs evidence to inform future stages of preparing the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, being prepared jointly by the Councils. Preferred Options for the Local Plan (called the First Proposals) were published for public consultation in November 2021 with a supporting evidence base. The Councils consider that the employment land, economic development and housing needs evidence completed to date (referred to below) is robust. The work now required to support future stages of plan making goes beyond what was envisaged in the original contract, reflecting changing circumstances in both the plan making process, including additional plan making stages, and the context in which the plan is being prepared, including the COVID-19 pandemic. As such this new procurement exercise seeks to incorporate all requirements now anticipated through to adoption of the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, any further support needed to inform the latter stages of North East Cambridge Area Action Plan, and also to incorporate the potential for advice on related topics. The successful company will need to provide advice in a way that updates and builds upon work completed and published to date, as well as responding to consultation representations made at all stages of the plan making process regarding that work. The project specification includes a number of work strands: • Work-strand 1: Work to inform Greater Cambridge Local Plan Draft Plan (Regulation 18) consultation: o Review of Greater Cambridge Employment Land and Economic Development Evidence Study o Review of Housing & Employment Relationships Report o Economic development advice on issues relating to strategic allocations proposed in Local Plan • Work-strand 2: North East Cambridge advice • Work-strand 3: Work to inform future stages of plan-making • Work-strand 4: Provision of Expert advice to Development Plan Examinations If you wish to bid for this contract please visit our electronic portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=3982c3ca-8eb5-ec11-8113-005056b64545

We are looking to deliver a Leadership and Management Development Programme, initially to our corporate management team members but with a view of extending the offering in future years to other managers or aspiring managers. • Provide our managers with the skills and competencies they need to manage effectively • Allow managers to identify individual areas of weakness and tailor their development programme accordingly • Help managers gain awareness of individual styles and how to adapt their approach If you wish to provide a bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our electronic portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=973dac8e-afc4-ec11-8113-005056b64545

Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council (the Councils) are producing a joint piece of work which will cover the combined area of these local authorities. The Councils are seeking suitably qualified specialists to carry out a discovery into housing monitoring data through the planning system. This discovery should be based upon the standards set out in the Local Digital Declaration and Technology Code of Practice. If you wish to submit a bid for this tender please visit our electronic tendering platform at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=c7fc2109-f2d5-ec11-8114-005056b64545

Cambridge City Council (CCC) and South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) are seeking consultants to prepare a Skyline and Tall Buildings Strategy and Heritage Impact Assessments for the Greater Cambridge area (defined as the combined area of Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Districts) If you wish to apply for this tender please visit our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=8442ffa0-8d06-ed11-8116-005056b64545

SCDC is leading on a procurement on behalf East Cambridgeshire and South Cambridgeshire District Councils to develop a series of Warm Hubs operated from community buildings across the Districts of East Cambridgeshire and South Cambridgeshire this winter (2022) to support vulnerable and isolated people, as well as those on lower incomes. Therefore SCDC is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to provide these services. The aim of the Warm Hub will be to provide support to those most vulnerable this winter to help mitigate the cost of living crisis. The Hubs will offer a warm, friendly and inclusive environment with access to hot food, tea and coffee; somewhere to socialise, take part in activities and receive information on how to reduce bills, access financial support, and stay healthy and well. The activities we will expect the successful contractor to deliver will be to: • Identify and train volunteers • Identify the suitable venues • Liaise with the Parish councils • Liaise with extensive network of contacts in the voluntary and statutory sector to identify the cohort of vulnerable people that could be referred to the hubs • Support the operational running of the hubs • Support and supervise the staff at the hubs • Provide day to day management of Staff • Carry out suitable risk assessment of venue • Ensure safeguarding policy and training for staff is in place • Collect quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate the project • Share learning and outcomes with stakeholders The project should be led by volunteers from within their communities with the aim of establishing a network of sustainable Warm Hubs across both East and South Cambridgeshire. The project should be based on strong partnership working, take a place-based approach which brings together communities, health sector, community and local government organisations.

Cambridge City Council (CCC) and South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) are seeking consultants to prepare a green and open space strategy for the Greater Cambridge area (defined as the combined area of Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Districts. Detailed proposals are now invited from consultants. This work will form part of the Councils' development plan making process in relation to open space and green infrastructure provision. The provider must demonstrate in writing that they have no conflicts of interest in respect of work being sought that cannot be effectively mitigated. It should be noted that the Councils have a track record of working with both individual consultants as well as a group of consultants on specific evidence base studies. The Councils want to work with consultants who can demonstrate a high level of knowledge and practical experience of preparing open space and green infrastructure strategies which are sound and robust in terms of plan preparation. For a copy of the tender documentation please visit our electronic tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=062471c0-ad32-ed11-8119-005056b64545

SCDC is leading on a joint procurement exercise to acquire a Planning Obligation Administration system (the System) on behalf of the GCSP. In both Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire records relating to Section 106 agreements are recorded in bespoke Microsoft Access databases. Both the Cambridge City Council and the South Cambridgeshire databases maintains records relating to around 1,500 developments, respectively. In addition, Cambridge City Council also maintains a dormant database containing information on around 500 developments. Records on how section 106 monies have been spent are held separately. Recent internal audits for the Councils highlighted weaknesses with the current systems and recommended the implementation of a new holistic database incorporating both information on the section 106 agreement and project spend management. At the same time Regulations (the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 as amended) require annual Infrastructure funding statement and associated datasheets to the Government. The project must therefore deliver an established and nationally recognised Planning Obligation Administration software system satisfying the following objectives: • Ability for multiple Council departments to access data and maintain records • A public interface providing read only access to information by third parties • Ability to generate pre-population reports including the Infrastructure Funding Statement and Annual Monitoring Report • Ability to generate CSV files in accordance with Government guidance (Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government) • Ability to create bespoke reports on any information field • Ability to create system notifications for when site visits or obligations (including contributions) become due • Ability to link with the TechnologyOne finance system Further information on minimum System requirements is contained in Section 2. The project will also deliver, as a minimum, a data migration of planning application records held by the Councils respective databases where a Section 106 agreement exists and transfer mapping information from the Idox based Total Land Charges system. Applicants are also invited to propose solutions on data transfer from existing systems which the Council will consider separately. Data migration fees should be presented on a day rate basis. If you wish to apply for this tender please visit our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=eca1cca6-2e4e-ed11-811a-005056b64545

As part of the Council's response to the Cost of Living Crisis, we are looking to procure the services of a food parcel distributor to link with our network of Warm Hubs to ensure that people attending these hubs also have access to food if they need it. South Cambridgeshire is a largely rural district with few food banks. Often community foodbanks are created for the purpose of supporting residents who live within that community and do not extend beyond the bounds of the Parish. Therefore SCDC is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to provide food support for our Warm Hubs where there is no community food provision. The aim of the food parcel distributor will be to provide support to those most vulnerable to help mitigate the cost of living crisis. The food provider will offer a nutritionally balanced parcel of foods to meet emergency food needs of the individual or a family. If you wish to apply for this tender please visit our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=22ea8244-3f51-ed11-811a-005056b64545

SCDC is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced company to provide a Mystery Shopper Service to SCDC for its contact centre for telephone call channel traffic. The purpose is to understand and learn about the customer experience identifying key elements of the service that could be enhanced to improve the outcome by reducing unnecessary delays in the customer journey. The process will involve the successful company contacting our Council as a customer and capturing their experience in a way that SCDC can determine the quality of its services. If you wish to bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=84d17e30-0a6f-ed11-811c-005056b64545

Overview\r A reporting solution is required for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. The reporting solution must be able to provide detailed reports for MS Teams Auto Attendants, Call Queues & Individual Teams Telephony Users for both internal & PSTN calls.\r \r Solution Capabilities\r The solution must be able to report on the following statistics: Call Volumes, Call Duration, Queue Wait Times, Presence of Queue Members, Caller ID, Abandoned Calls, Missed Calls, Start-time/End-time, Visualisations of Call Legs (on-hold/presented/answered)\r \r Data Presentation\r Historical/Real-time Data must be presentable in pre-configured dashboards, as well as exportable to Excel. Reports must be able to be scheduled.\r \r Accessibility\r The solution will be used by Call Queue Team owners, Team Leaders & the Management team.\r Ideally, we are looking for a managed service that once set up will allow the users of the system to serve themselves for any reporting needs, without having to rely on the Council's Shared IT Service for any regular data transfers.\r \r The Councils are therefore looking for a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to provide this reporting solution.\r \r The solution must be already in existence and a turnkey solution, being a commercially off the shelf solution. \r

Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service (GCSPS) is a shared service for CCC and SCDC. Over the last few decades, GCSPS has experienced significant growth with the current local plan period. While most of this growth is being delivered on strategic sites, as urban extension and new settlements, there are infill sites and areas within the Cambridge such as some areas within the suburban estates to the north, east and south that are in need of regeneration. There are a number of infill developments coming forward for planning permission within these suburban areas incrementally whose designs are based at a site- specific level, in the absence of a strategic vision for how the area should evolve in the future. As land comes forward for development, within the constraints of the existing local plan these areas could benefit from reimagining their future. They would need to address some of the challenges of meeting zero carbon, making effective and efficient use of land in a sustainable location, whilst being sensitive to its historic and landscape context, improving the quality of homes and places for their communities GCSPS have been selected to be part of the Design Code Pathfinder programme by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) to test the approach set out in the National Model Design Code (NMDC) and investigate how design coding may apply at an area wide scale. For more information and to apply for this contract please register on our electronic tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=6d51400b-7dac-ed11-811f-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) is undertaking a procurement to develop a series of programmes, known as Exercise4Fun to be hosted in leisure settings across South Cambridgeshire. This programme aims to support those who are inactive and/or have a BMI over 25. Referrals would be accepted via health professionals or self-referral. Owing to the requirements of this programme, SCDC will be looking for leisure providers to deliver this service at various key locations across our District.\r \r The Exercise4Fun programme will take a cohort (max 12 participants) through a 12-week active lifestyle programme, to help people become active and move more. It will include a range of activities preferably delivered in the evenings, to help improve fitness, socialise, learn new skills, and ultimately improve overall wellbeing. The session programme will consist of group activities including fitness classes, walking sports, team games, healthy eating, and wellbeing walks. Activities to be chosen by participants in consultation with the leisure centre organiser at the start of the 12-week programme. \r \r For more information and a copy of the tender documents please register on our electronic tendering portal:\r https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=05306d5b-18eb-ed11-8122-005056b64545

Planning obligations under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, commonly known as s106 agreements, are a mechanism used to make a development proposal acceptable in planning terms. They are focused on site specific mitigation of the impact of development by way of either the direct provision of infrastructure (both on and off site of the development) and through the payment of financial contributions to the local planning authority.\r \r The section 106 information relating to Cambridge City Council are recorded in a bespoke Microsoft Access database built around the year 2000 and contains details relating to around 1,600 agreements (excluding deeds of variation). Information relating to agreements completed before then are held in a now dormant database. Section 106 records for South Cambridgeshire are similarly stored in a Microsoft Access database built in around 2009 and which stores records of around 1800 agreements (excluding deeds of variation).\r \r GCSP has recently acquired a database from Exacom Systems Limited and now requires data contained within these section 106 agreements, along with the compliance held by GCSP in the current databases, needs to be uploaded onto Exacom. \r From 1 April 2012 GCSP has completed 1010 section 106 agreements (excluding deeds of variation). Some of these agreements relate to appeals that were dismissed thereby reducing the number of the total number agreements to be migrated (this is estimated to be 20-40 agreements). \r \r Around half of the total number of agreements are for minor developments which secure a small number of financial contributions only and where there are no obligations relating to (for example) affordable housing or public open space. The balance of agreements comprises a mix of major residential development schemes and commercial developments. Four example agreements are appended demonstrating the type of major and minor agreements that are to be expected. \r The quantity of deeds of variation is unknown but is estimated to be in the region of 100, however, many of these are for the sole purpose of incorporating new mortgagee provisions relating to the affordable dwellings (i.e. monitored obligations are often unaffected).\r \r Around 10 of these agreements relate to particularly large new settlements or urban extensions (i.e. those of 1000 dwellings or more). It is intended that the details relating to these developments will be uploaded by GCSP and are therefore excluded from the instruction.\r \r GCSP is looking to upload data relating to around 1000 agreements as an initial undertaking. Further data migration of the balance is likely but the full extent of this will depend on cost. \r \r For more information and a copy of the tender documents please see our electronic tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=fdfede1a-7cea-ed11-8122-005056b64545\r

Foxton Parish Council (FPC). Foxton is a small, historic village laying seven miles (11 kilometres) south west of Cambridge. The parish area covers some 710 hectares and is predominantly rural agricultural land. It occupies low-lying chalk lands, bounded by the river Rhee (Cam), to the north-west, Hoffer Brook to the north-east and by an ancient road running north-east from Fowlmere to Newton (now the B1368).\r \r FPC are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Contractor to carry out Upgrading and Improvement To Foxton Playground as set out in the procurement documents. The location of the works is Foxton Recreation Ground, Hardman Road, Foxton, Cambridgeshire CB22 6RN.\r \r For more information please register on the electronic procurement portal (provided by South Cambridgeshire District Council) and download the tender documents: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=0b2efcbb-19f3-ed11-8122-005056b64545\r \r This contract is published by South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) on their electronic tendering portal however, this contract is being let by Foxton Parish Council. There is no intention to create a legal relationship between SCDC as this is purely to enable Foxton Parish Council to make use of SCDC's electronic portal to carry out Foxton Parish Council's procurement exercise. Any resulting contract will be between the successful supplier and Foxton Parish Council.

SCDC is leading on a joint procurement exercise to acquire a Biodiversity Net Gain system (the System) on behalf of the GCSP. \r \r In both Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire records relating to Biodiversity Net Gain within planning agreements need to be reviewed by a software product that need to be commercial off the shelf product that his a full turn key solution. \r \r The software should align to and utilise Defra's Biodiversity Metric and BNG criteria, facilitating the import and verification of that service output It should also include the functionality to adjust these criteria, in line with any policy changes that may occur. The software needs to be able to validate planning applications through a process of assessment and determination.   \r \r It is important that the software platform be cloud based, compatible with Windows 10 and 11, and able to be used via Microsoft Edge, which is the Councils preferred browser. The server ideally should be hosting data within the UK. \r \r The system needs to be GDPR compliant and a GDPR impact assessment needs to be undertaken. A data sharing agreement between the provider and the local authority must be generated if data is shared through use of the product. \r The system will be used by multiple individuals with the organisation. Any software licence procured should enable its use across a minimum of six machines. System administration access and the right to alter the system would be preferred. \r The system will need to have basic security controls in place and be easy to use. \r \r The system will also need to enable the existing data from our existing systems to be transferred into the Biodiversity Net Gain Software.\r \r The new System should be configured, tested and available for use prior to a go live date. \r \r https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=6bf3436d-25da-ee11-8127-005056b64545&fromProjectDashboard=True

The Cambridgeshire Waste Collection Authorities ("the Authorities") collect dry mixed recycling from domestic and commercial premises across Cambridgeshire. This tender is for the transportation/receipt, sorting and onward sale/re-processing of commingled dry recyclable materials.\r \r The RECAP Councils have worked collaboratively for many years in the delivery of DMR across Cambridgeshire. That collaboration continues for this procurement. The procurement itself is being conducted as a single procurement, but with the award of contract being in the form of separate Lots, as described in more detail in the ITT. The Lots are presented as alternative Lots (by reference to size), to enable the Councils to seek the broadest possible market response. ?This means that an award will not be made for every Lot. This is described in more detail in 'Lotting Guidance' of the ITT.\r \r The RECAP Councils will make the decision collectively as to which Lots to award and to which bidders. Following award, the ensuing contracts will either be concluded with an individual Council or a number of them, depending upon which Lots have been chosen as the best value for money. The number and size of the Lots has been determined to enable the Authorities to receive the maximum number of responses from the market taking account of the size of the different Lots and the needs of the different Authorities. Contractors should note that the Lots are presented in varied Lot Sizes which are to ensure processing capacity is secured for all RECAP Partners. The dry mixed recyclables will come from any one of the district and unitary authorities within the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area. This may mean that certain Lots will not have an award of contract made in respect of them, because better value alternatives exist in the award of alternative Lots. As a result, we would request that contractors bid for as many lots as they are interested in whilst also sharing the maximum capacity available at your MRF.\r \r For the avoidance of doubt, bids are welcome from contractors who can provide one or more processing sites with capacity and can collect from transfer facilities expected to be within a 10 mile radius of each local authority in this procurement. These transfer locations are the subject of a separate procurement. There is a map in Appendix 5 showing the location of the depots. As such the Authorities welcome bids for any one or more or all the Lots available. Contractors are not limited in the number of Lots they are able to bid for, although the Authorities will carry out the assessment of Contractors' financial standing and technical ability by reference to the number of Lots bid for and which meet the Authorities selection criteria to enable a contract to be awarded in accordance with the provisions of this ITT. \r \r Additional information: Potential Providers will need to register an account via the "Procontract Portal" at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register before being able to view the full tender details. In order to access the tender documentation, click "Find Opportunities", then on the drop-down menu, filter by "Cambridgeshire Public Services" by clicking on "Update" to find the relevant opportunity or alternatively within the organisations drop down select Cambridgeshire County Council to also find the relevant opportunity.

The Cambridgeshire Waste Collection Authorities collect dry mixed recycling from domestic and commercial premises across Cambridgeshire. This tender is to provide suitably located and permitted transfer stations for accepting the delivery, weighing, storage and bulking for onward transport, of this mixed dry recycling. The onward transport is an element of a separate procurement. This transport will be coordinated such that materials are moved from each transfer site at a suitable frequency.\r \r The RECAP Councils have worked collaboratively for many years in the delivery of DMR across Cambridgeshire. That collaboration continues for this procurement. The procurement itself is being conducted as a single procurement, but with the award of contract being in the form of separate Lots, as described in more detail in this ITT. The Lots are presented as alternative Lots (by reference to size), to enable the Councils to seek the broadest possible market response. ?This means that an award will not be made for every Lot. This is described in more detail in 'Lotting Guidance' within the ITT.\r \r The RECAP Councils will make the decision collectively as to which Lots to award and to which bidders. Following award, the ensuing contracts will either be concluded with an individual Council or a number of them, depending upon which Lots have been chosen as the best value for money.\r \r Notwithstanding, the separate Contracts, the Councils are committed to sharing the per tonne costs equally across Cambridgeshire and to manage the contracts on a collective basis. They have committed to concluding an Inter Authority Agreement (IAA) to facilitate this arrangement. ?The joint contract management arrangements will be reflected in each of the contracts, but otherwise, the IAA not be affect the contractual position of each successful bidder, whose rights and obligations will be governed solely by the Contract it has with the individual Council or number of Councils, as the case may be.\r \r The Authorities look to secure this Bulking Service in a set of individual locations across Cambridgeshire with suitable proximity to existing collections and/or depots with the aim of reducing unnecessary travel.\r \r For the avoidance of doubt, bids are welcome from contractors who can provide one or more sites with capacity in any one or more of the geographical areas identified in the specification. As such the Authorities welcome bids for any one or more or all the lots available.\r \r Potential Providers will need to register an account via the Procontract Portal at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register before being able to view the full tender details.\r \r In order to access the tender documentation, click Find Opportunities then on the drop-down menu, filter by Cambridgeshire Public Services by clicking on Update to find the relevant opportunity or alternatively within the organisations drop down select Cambridgeshire County Council to also find the relevant opportunity.