UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

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

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

In order to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and refugee resettlement initiatives, SCDC is looking to support its residents with a variety of essential furniture and white goods items to help them access a successful tenancy or bring down household costs. SCDC is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to provide a service whereby a variety of furniture and white goods items can be purchased and delivered by the supplier directly to our residents to support them. The list of essential furniture and white goods items that may be required will be split into two lots to open the opportunity to bid to more suppliers. Please only bid for a lot if you can provide all the items in that lot. Suppliers are welcome to bid for both lots if they're able to provide all the items in both lots and will have the chance to be successful in winning both lots. Those suppliers wishing to bid for both lots will only need to complete Part B quality questionnaire once. Please see below for the breakdown of the list of items required in each lot. Lot 1 (Furniture): o 2-seater sofas o 3-seater sofas o Single beds (including mattress) o Double beds (including mattress) o Bedding including pillows and duvets (for both single and double beds) o Wardrobes Lot 2 (White Goods): o Cookers (including fitting) o Fridge freezers o Under counter fridges o Under counter freezers o Washing machines The approximate dimensions and specifications should be submitted as part of your response to this ITT. Please note that all electrical items must meet UK standards and be fitted with a UK 3 pin plug. All furniture must meet UK safety standards and fire regulations. Should you wish to provide a bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=dad24a02-64a8-ed11-811f-005056b64545

As part of South Cambridgeshire District Council's work to support guests from Ukraine through the Homes for Ukraine scheme, we are working with our local communities in their efforts to welcome and provide support for guests. We will require a service provider(s) that can deliver cost effective, flexible, high quality and value for money 'nature-based' wellbeing courses that support the health and wellbeing of Ukrainian Children. To include: • Teaching children to learn through hands-on experiences through activities such as Bushcraft skills, playing games, making friends, building dens, pond dipping and treasure hunts. • Sessions taught by skilled activity instructor(s) • Learning that takes place in a natural setting to help develop confidence and self-esteem. • Sessions that are in line with best Nature-based wellbeing practice • Sessions that allow a Ukrainian/Russian speaking wellbeing support worker to attend. • A reasonable 'dropout policy' to ensure spaces are filled as consistently as possible • Certificates of achievement for students at the end of the course • The promotion of other schemes run by South Cambridgeshire District Council to be included in courses, for example free bikes/ free laptops/ESOL lessons Should you wish to bid for this tender please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=fe4ecc2d-6bb7-ed11-8120-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) has a commitment to 'Bring Empty Homes Back into Use' as swiftly as possible. Where we are unable to locate individuals to bring a property back into use, or where the property owner is deceased and we require commencement of Probate (by next of kin, executors or legal representatives) to sell or rent the property, SCDC would like to engage with a Probate Research/Estate Administration company to locate or contact interested parties before enforcement options are applied. SCDC are putting these services in place, however these are concessionary services on behalf of the beneficiaries of any search. Should you wish to bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=a009d695-3bad-ed11-811f-005056b64545

SCDC is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced company to carry out a reinstatement valuation on our housing stock for insurance purposes. The timeline we are following is in conjunction with our insurance renewal in September 2023 and so ideally SCDC is looking for the valuation to be completed by July 2023. Should you wish to bid for this tender please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=2d55bd03-5cac-ed11-811f-005056b64545

The requirement is for the provision of a business led comprehensive and highly integrated range of occupational health services (OHS) to enable South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) to meet the service needs, common law and statutory duties of care for the health, safety and welfare of its employees in their working environment. The aim is to secure so far as is reasonably practicable the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical and mental well-being of the Council's employees during their employment. An essential feature to the success of the OHS is the confidence, which employees and managers have in it. In this respect, the maintenance of confidentiality of information relating to the employees of SCDC, both medical and otherwise, gained in the course of the provision of the OHS, is paramount. Accordingly, in relation to confidentiality, the Service Provider shall comply with the codes of ethical conduct established by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM), the British Medical Association (BMA), the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). If you wish to provide a bid for this tender please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=a04fd815-00ae-ed11-811f-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) and Cambridge City Council (CCC) want to redesign their websites' navigation, functions and page templates to improve customer experience, achieve channel shift and create a fully transactional website, enabling customers to self-serve 24/7. South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council are needing to make significant savings and reduce the amount of admin work our back-office colleagues are dealing with, especially our Contact Centres. We want to improve the customer experience on our website so users can find what they need without contacting us. We need websites that are modern and able to keep up with the future technological trends. Huntingdonshire District Council will have the option to use this contract at their discretion. Should you wish to bid for this contract please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=3a1c113f-a4ae-ed11-811f-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) and Cambridge City Council (CCC) want to redesign their websites’ navigation, functions and page templates to improve customer experience, achieve channel shift and create a fully transactional website, enabling customers to self-serve 24/7. South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council are needing to make significant savings and reduce the amount of admin work our back-office colleagues are dealing with, especially our Contact Centres. We want to improve the customer experience on our website so users can find what they need without contacting us. We need websites that are modern and able to keep up with the future technological trends. Huntingdonshire District Council have the right to use this contract at their discretion. If you wish to bid for this tender please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=3a1c113f-a4ae-ed11-811f-005056b64545

SCDC is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to undertake a separate sample satisfaction survey to both tenants and leaseholders on an annual basis, as well as monthly surveys to a percentage of tenants receiving repairs. SCDC manage 5355 council rented homes in South Cambridgeshire with around 20% of tenants living in sheltered accommodation. In addition to these properties, we also have 549 properties that are leased (see breakdown below): 282 Equity Share for the Elderly properties 90 New build Shared Ownership properties 24 First Time Buyer Properties 26 Shared ownership properties (old scheme) 127 Leasehold Flats https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=0b595239-02b9-ed11-8120-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) are looking for suitably qualified and experienced Agencies to provide temporary agency staff to SCDC. SCDC are therefore establishing an Agency Staff Framework Contract (The Contract), comprising of a number of categories and it is envisaged that a number of Agencies will be appointed to each category. Agencies will be invited to bid via the Public Contract Regulations 2015 open tender procedure to create an compliant Framework contract. The final contract will be a separate call off contract from the created Agency Staff Framework Contract between each agency and the Council. Whilst The Contract is a contract between the Agencies and SCDC, The Contract will also be open for Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) Cambridge City Council (CCC), East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC) and Fenland District Council (FDC) to use at their discretion. Please note that CCC, HDC and SCDC are working in strategic partnership to share a number of Council services. Should you wish to bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=41b5498f-8ab3-ed11-811f-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) are looking for suitably qualified and experienced Agencies to provide temporary agency staff to SCDC. SCDC are therefore establishing an Agency Staff Framework Contract (The Contract), comprising of a number of categories and it is envisaged that a number of Agencies will be appointed to each category. Agencies will be invited to bid via the Public Contract Regulations 2015 open tender procedure to create an compliant Framework contract. The final contract will be a separate call off contract from the created Agency Staff Framework Contract between each agency and the Council. Whilst The Contract is a contract between the Agencies and SCDC, The Contract will also be open for Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) Cambridge City Council (CCC), East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC) and Fenland District Council (FDC) to use at their discretion. Please note that CCC, HDC and SCDC are working in strategic partnership to share a number of Council services. Should you wish to bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=41b5498f-8ab3-ed11-811f-005056b64545

South Cambridgeshire District Council is seeking to commission a survey of private sector housing stock conditions. This includes assessing: a) category 1 and 2 hazards using the Housing Health and Safety Rating System under the Housing Act 2004 b) non decent homes occupied by both vulnerable and non-vulnerable households c) energy efficiency d) fuel poverty in vulnerable households e) breakdown of adaptations eligible for disabled facilities grants f) rented accommodation g) houses in multiple occupation h) properties empty for more than 6 months i) general information on the area, including a socio economic profile of private sector householders in the South Cambridgeshire District Council area. Should you wish to bid for this tender, please do so by visiting: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=7185e3af-9bc8-ed11-8120-005056b64545

The requirement is for the provision of a business led comprehensive and highly integrated range of occupational health services (OHS) to enable South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) to meet the service needs, common law and statutory duties of care for the health, safety and welfare of its employees in their working environment. The aim is to secure so far as is reasonably practicable the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical and mental well-being of the Council's employees during their employment. An essential feature to the success of the OHS is the confidence, which employees and managers have in it. In this respect, the maintenance of confidentiality of information relating to the employees of SCDC, both medical and otherwise, gained in the course of the provision of the OHS, is paramount. Accordingly, in relation to confidentiality, the Service Provider shall comply with the codes of ethical conduct established by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM), the British Medical Association (BMA), the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Should you wish to bid for this tender, please do so by visiting our e-tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=fc1fbea9-f5c7-ed11-8120-005056b64545

SCDC is looking for a suitable contractor to run a mobile foodbank, servicing initially 6 different villages, and rising, depending on its success. The villages initially identified have been selected using the indices of deprivation data from the 2021 census, targeting wards with the highest level of households deprived in two or more dimensions that do not have close access to a foodbank. These villages/wards are Papworth, Over & Willingham, Histon & Impington, Fen Ditton & Fulbourn, Linton, and Duxford. These locations are subject to change as prior engagement with each ward must be undertaken before starting this project. A van filled with food items will visit these villages on a weekly basis, to set up a marquee in a suitable, accessible location and run a foodbank for 2 hours each time. There will be no set eligibility criteria for people to access the foodbank, but this is subject to change following the trial period. For more information and a copy of the tender documents please register on our tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=74484751-27e5-ed11-8121-005056b64545

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. 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. For more information and a copy of the tender documents please register on our electronic tendering portal: 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. 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). 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. 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). 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. 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). 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. 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. 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

South Cambridgeshire District Council are seeking a service provider to develop and deliver sporting and physical activity offers to the new community at Waterbeach. Waterbeach is a new town situated in the Parish of Waterbeach and once complete will consist of up to 11 000 homes. The site consists of two master developers: Urban&Civic (U&C) and RLW Estates (RLW). U&C have outline planning permission for up to 5500 homes and RLW have consent for 4500 homes - subject to the signing of a section 106 agreement which is still under negotiation. U&C are progressing onsite with various meanwhile uses already present on site including a refurbished sports hall and assault course. There are two housebuilders on site with show homes open for one of them meaning first occupations will likely take place in the summer. Research into new developments in Cambridgeshire suggest some common patterns. The population forecasts for the new developments all show a similar pattern with a steep increase in the population aged 20-64 in the first 10-20 years of the development with a slow decline then onwards. The 0-19 aged population has a steady increase during this time but not so steep, reflecting that not all residents moving into a new development have or will have children. However, it is apparent that new communities have unusually high birth-rates and significantly different profiles of 0-19 year olds than established communities. The 65+ age group shows a steady increase year on year but starts from a low base, suggesting that the increase is mainly due to a naturally ageing population rather than a large influx of older people moving into new developments. Consideration will need to be made of the likely ethnic profile of this and the surrounding communities to ensure the service is appropriately delivered. If you are interested for bidding for this contract, then please register and download the documents from our electronic tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=a03b82f9-7600-ee11-8123-005056b64545

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). 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. 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 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.