UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

A product Catalogue framework for members of the Northern Housing Consortium to purchase sustainable energy and resilience products such as batteries and PV solar panels. The intention is for suppliers to specify their products to allow for members to call off contracts to purchase these products and install them. A Premarket engagement notice will be published shortly to arrange engagement sessions to further detail the scope. For who can become members of the NHC and access the framework visit https://nhcprocurement.org.uk/who-can-access-our-solutions/

Requirements Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) is a statutory water undertaker operating in the North East of England under the trading name Northumbrian Water Ltd (NWL) and in the southern area of England under the trading name of Essex & Suffolk Water (ESW). We would expect the agency to have good knowledge of these areas, and the media landscape within them. The contract will be to support the delivery of the NWG Corporate Affairs strategies by offering a range of effective, innovative, and cost-effective solutions to media buying. This will include, but not limited to, ongoing advice and professional support in reaching key targets and audiences across our operating regions and assisting in the delivery of the NWG Corporate Affairs goals, measures, and brand strategy, bringing campaigns to life using all aspects of media platforms. In addition to this, it is crucial that the measuring of campaign effectiveness is monitored throughout with the results delivered back through reporting. We deliver a diverse range of campaigns throughout the year, including initiatives such as Bin the Wipe, Water's Worth Saving, smart meter adoption, lead pipe replacement, digital conversion, affordability support, Priority Services, and more. Each campaign has distinct objectives - ranging from raising awareness to driving direct action - which is why we need an agency with proven expertise in creating impactful campaigns across multiple areas. Reputation is of critical importance to our organisation and sits at the core of how we select and manage our partners. As custodians of our brand, we require agencies to operate with the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability. Media investment is a direct reflection of our organisation, and therefore we seek a partner whose reputation in the marketplace demonstrates ethical practice, financial governance, responsible media placement, and a proven commitment to brand safety. We expect full alignment with our values, including compliance with all regulatory requirements, transparent fee structures, responsible data usage, and proactive risk management. Our media buying partner must not only deliver performance, but also protect and enhance our organisational standing through every planning, buying, and optimisation decision. We expect a clear and efficient briefing process and full collaboration to ensure seamless integration across all channels, and they are delivered exactly as briefed. The appointed agency must provide comprehensive reporting, including proof of display, campaign performance summaries, conclusions, and actionable recommendations for future activity. A dedicated account team is essential, led by a senior team member and supported by at least two additional team members. Transparency is critical - this applies to audited invoicing, commission rates, and any discounts secured on our behalf. All proposals and post-campaign reports should clearly demonstrate value against standard rate cards, including overshow and bonus spots. Advanced notification of any changes to media suppliers and their potential impact on NWG must be provided. We also require proactive monitoring of campaigns to ensure all activity is booked as briefed and delivered as agreed. Evidence of all placements must be supplied, with suitable remedies in the event of any discrepancies. Clear copy instructions, specifications, and deadlines for all channels should be communicated promptly. Emergency media support may be needed, even at weekends and during bank holidays. Full campaign reports should be delivered within ten working days of campaign completion, with weekly updates available upon request. To maintain high standards, we expect timely responses and measurable performance. Briefs, wherever possible, should be acknowledged within two working hours, and full reporting - including outdoor site proof of display - should be provided within one week of campaign completion. Regular meetings (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) should be scheduled as required, either online or face-to-face, and site visits must be accommodated within the contract period. The agency should also facilitate quarterly media owner insight days to keep us informed of market developments. Response times for issues will be measured against agreed priorities: availability for calls at very short notice for critical matters should be a priority, and resolved within 24 hours; urgent matters acknowledged within two working hours and resolved within two business days; and important matters acknowledged within four working hours and resolved within three business days. We would expect the successful agency to reinvest a percentage of its advertising commission back into the campaign as added value. As part of this contract, we would expect the agency to have expert knowledge in providing the marketing services across the following channels - note that this is not an exhaustive list, and we would expect the agency to keep fully up to date with new channels and trends. • TV - linear and on demand • Social media • Out of Home (OOH) • Digital Out of Home (DOOH) • Radio • Digital radio • Audio streaming - e.g., podcasts, Spotify etc. • YouTube • Digital programmatic • Print • Cinema • Literature distribution / door drops Google Ads and Print - we reserve the right to go direct or use a media buyer for this option.

CPI intends to establish a framework agreement with suitably qualified and experienced suppliers for the provision of servicing, maintenance, and support of mass spectrometers, as well as the supply of new mass spectrometers, across all CPI sites.

PRELIMINARY MARKET ENGAGEMENT (PME) NOTICIFICATION - This is not a call for competition as THE TENDER DOCUMENTATION IS NOT YET AVAILABLE. PLEASE ACCESS THE MESSAGES SECTION ON THE ACTIVITY DASHBOARD (ONCE AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST HAS BEEN COMPLETED) FOR ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS FOR THIS PRELIMINARY MARKET ENGAGEMENT, INCLUDING THE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) DOCUMENTATION AND ASSOCIATED RESPONSE DEADLINE. The Authority seeks to establish a multi-supplier Framework for the Supply & Distribution of Kitchens for use by its Members and other Public Sector Contracting Bodies across the UK. The tender is split into 7 Lots by geographical areas • Lot 1 - North • Lot 2 - Central • Lot 3 - South East • Lot 4 - South West • Lot 5 - Wales • Lot 6 – Scotland • Lot 7 - Northern Ireland For each Lot, the authority seeks to appoint up to 6 suitably qualified Providers able to provide the full requirements.

Design and build of the Sheepfolds Mobility Hub. Key Mobility Hub components The Mobility Hub is planned to be a multi-story building, providing several mobility-related and other community facilities on floors Lower Ground, Ground and First. Further upper floors will be car parking spaces. The Mobility Hub will feature the following components (provisional numbers): Car parking (192 spaces) EV charging (up to 45 spaces) Car clubs (6 spaces) Secure cycle parking (90 spaces including some cargo/accessible bike spaces, bike store of 152m² and 44m² with repair stands) WC (6no.)/showers (2no.)/lockers along with secure cycle parking Parcel lockers (55m² room giving 28m linear frontage) Cycle Café (107m² floor area) and other commercial rental space (69m² floor area)

Durham County Council (the Council) has a duty to provide services for vulnerable residents who are eligible for care and support according to the national criteria introduced by the Care Act 2014. The Council is seeking multiple providers that can provide the below named services. This is a flexible Framework where bidders may bid at any time. However, at the sole discretion of the Council, it may close the Framework should the Council deem they have sufficient providers to meet demand. The Council has the discretion to both open and close selected Lots and not all Lots should it choose to. The opportunity is divided into four Lots as detailed below: Lot 1: Learning Disability Standard Care Lot 2: Learning Disability Enhanced Care Lot 3: Mental Health Standard Care Lot 4: Mental Health Enhanced Care Bidders can bid for up to and including all 4 Lots and be awarded a Contract for up to and including all 4 Lots. Further details of the requirements are set out in the tender documents, which can be accessed free of charge, at www.open-uk.org using reference OPEN2026294. The Framework does not include any guarantee of any minimum volume of services, or any minimum expenditure. Furthermore, appointment under the Framework does not constitute a commitment by the Council, or any other contracting authority to the exclusive use of the Framework or an individual supplier for such requirements. Permitted modifications - The Council anticipates that changes may be required to reflect evolving service needs and external drivers. These may include (without limitation): -changes to the nature, scope, model or volume of Supported Living Services; -shifts in local and national health, care and wellbeing priorities; -changes in service user needs, complexity and demand; -amendments to statutory duties, regulatory requirements, inspection regimes or best practice guidance.

The proposed procurement will establish a single NEPO‑led Open Framework for the provision of Winter Bureau services, weather forecasting services, and RWIS outstation maintenance for UK local authorities. The framework will replace the existing NEPO217 (Winter Bureau & Outstation Maintenance) and NEPO230 (Weather Forecasting Services) arrangements and will bring these services together into one solution reflecting how they are used operationally by authorities. The scope is expected to include: Winter Bureau services, including decision support, data management, system availability, resilience and user access to operational winter information. Weather forecasting services, providing locally relevant and operationally defensible forecasts to support winter service decision‑making. RWIS outstation maintenance, covering inspection, maintenance, repair, calibration and associated support for existing roadside infrastructure. Optional or modular services, which may include enhanced data products, radar data, route‑based forecasting or analytical tools, where supported by market capability and authority demand. The framework will be designed to support continuity of existing systems and infrastructure, recognising recent investment by authorities and avoiding mandated wholesale replacement of assets. Authorities will be able to access services through clearly defined call‑off mechanisms, including further competition where appropriate. The Open Framework is expected to operate for up to eight years, with periodic reopening in line with the Procurement Act 2023 to allow for market refresh and potential new entrants. NEPO is a Centralised Procurement Authority as defined in the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23), providing central purchasing activity on behalf of Contracting Authorities. All elements in this notice are subject to change at the sole discretion of NEPO. This notice is intended to inform the market of the potential scope of the procurement, not to be taken as the final agreed version. The agreement will be available to NEPO Member Authorities and all current and future Associate Members. Current Associate Members are listed in the Associate Member section of the NEPO website at: https://www.nepo.org/associate-membership A list of permissible users available at: https://www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissible-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. Further information can be found at: www.nepo.org (https://www.nepo.org)

Tees Valley Combined Authority (the 'Contracting Authority'), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group are seeking to reprocure Supported Bus Services across the Tees Valley region. Within this tender, the services below are separated into lots. Providers can bid on as few or as many lots as they deem appropriate. Each lot has a separate financial threshold. A maximum budget of £15,049,000 is available to deliver these contracts including the utilisation of all options to extend. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://teesvalley.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Darlington:-Public-road-transport-services./3VQ37RDQ8J To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://teesvalley.delta-esourcing.com/respond/3VQ37RDQ8J

Connect to Work is a voluntary local supported employment programme launched by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and funded by the UK Government. The contract will provide support to: Disabled people People with health conditions and Individuals with Complex Barriers to move into and maintain Employment.

The Council is seeking to award a contract for the provision of care and support services for the following extra care accommodation settings: • Haddington Vale • Cherry Tree Gardens Service requirements include Care and Support Services to individuals who are aged 18 years and over have been assessed by the Council as being eligible under the Care Act 2014 for care and support and whose care and support is fully or part funded by the Local Authority. The service will be provided to tenants within Haddington Vale and Cherry Tree Gardens extra care schemes (including the bungalows at Cherry Tree Gardens. The service will include: - Care and Support within Extra Care - Wellbeing Service

The CNTW All Age Drug and Alcohol Addictions service in Newcastle requires a partner organisation to provide recovery coordination, psychosocial interventions, recovery support and peer support.

Proposed development to comprise of office, welfare and workshop areas, fleet vehicle garages, a gritter vehicle shed and salt barn (8000 tonne capacity) building, external hardstanding areas for additional fleet parking, skip storage and ancillary facilities (including a truck wash bay, refuelling area, EV charging and containerised storage). Staff parking for 50 vehicles.

The Moorfoot Catalyst site is one of the identified priority areas which is situated in a distinctive gateway location into the city centre, inside the ring road (St Mary's Gate) and to the south of The Moor and Fitzwilliam Gate, bookending Sheffield's primary retail core. The area has been identified by Sheffield City Council (SCC) and Homes England for a major residential-led mixed use regeneration project. The scope of the proposed procurement opportunity includes the former Wickes (Plot 1) and the Moorfoot building, associated public realm and Moor Retail (Plot 2) as part of a first phase of development (‘Phase 1’). Homes England wishes to reserve the option to extend the procurement to include further plots within the Catalyst Site yet to be assembled. This notice references an estimated value of £300m (exclusive of VAT) this is deemed to be the higher end of the estimated Gross Development Value (GDV) of Phase 1 at this stage. This value is an indicative GDV and is subject to change. As no VAT treatment has been established both inclusive and exclusive VAT figures are the same. Any dates provided within this PME notice are estimates only and are subject to change. Please note, this procurement will be led by Homes England and SCC will be consulted throughout the process.

Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management Limited (NHFM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), wishes to appoint a Main Design & Build Contractor to refresh 12 existing wards at its Northumbria Specialist Emergency Hospital (NSECH) in Cramlington Northumberland. The primary aim of the project is to improve fire safety protection for patients, staff and visitors in all wards. The project’s secondary aim is to update the ward environment whilst the primary aim is completed. The 12 existing wards to be refreshed are located in 4no. existing 3-storey towers referred to as Towers A, B, D & E. There are five main elements to the work proposed on each tower. These are: • Design and installation of a Mist Suppression system • Targeted remediation of passive fire protection (Fire Compartment Walls) • General ‘refresh’ of each ward’s environment. • Attending to back-log maintenance of the existing Building Services in wards • Update to IT and digital infrastructure The procurement is a three stage competitive tendering procedure (a “competitive flexible procedure”) as permitted by the PA 2023. Tenderers are reminded to register on the Central Digital Platform. Document 1 Instructions and guidance to Tenderers (IGTT) is included within the documents available to download from the Contracting Authority's electronic tendering portal (Atamis). Companies who are not registered on Atamis will be required to do so before they can download the tender documents. The link to register is: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk

To create a UK wide digital service which will provide a near real-time overview of the delivery status, and support operational delivery of health and care research across the UK. The services we create through RDDI will provide information to patients, the public, industry and other stakeholders on health research happening across the country and will provide deeper insights into research performance, capacity and capability in research delivery organisations. The contract is for the provision of a unified Research Delivery Data and Intelligence solution (the Solution) that provides Central, Regional and local portfolio management capability and a central data and intelligence integration, analysis and reporting tool. This will allow UK administrations and wider stakeholders to interrogate and display research delivery data in a range of different ways.

This Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) will cover the Council's requirements for taxi and minibus services and will encompass Home to Care Transport, Home to School and College Transport, Transport for Adults, Looked After Children, People with Additional Needs, other Vulnerable People, Officers of the Council and any other transport requirement as authorised by the Authorised Officer. Please note that a notice for this procurement was originally publish within OJEU.

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive t/a Nexus are seeking to appoint a Principal Contractor to carry out and complete the Airport Route Upgrade works between Newcastle International Airport station and Longbenton (Tyne and Wear). The upgrade works consists of the replacement and renewal of permanent way assets and overhead line equipment. This will include renewal of specified areas of track, which have reached the end of their serviceable life, tamping to achieve a new through alignment, offloading ballast and stressing along with replacing an existing fixed tension overhead line system with a new automatically tensioned system. Certain civil engineering and signalling activities may also form part of the overall scope.

NEPO219 Building Materials DPS commenced on 3rd February 2020 and was due to expire in February 2025. The purpose of this notice is to extend the period of validity of the DPS and amend the title to provide greater clarity on the supplies covered under the solution. The Agreement is available to all Members and Associate Members of NEPO (www.nepo.org) and all current and future members of the Procurement Partnerships Limited (TPPL) buying club (www.tppl.co.uk)

This contract is for Residential Substance Misuse Services and is divided into two Lots: • Tier 4 In-patient Detoxification Residential Services • Residential Rehabilitation from Substance Misuse The Council is seeking multiple providers that can provide either or both of the above named services. This is a flexible open agreement where, at any time, any Provider that meets the required standards in the Selection Questionnaire can be awarded a contract. The Council makes no guarantee to any Provider that they will be awarded any Call-Off Contract and no guarantee is made in respect of any volume of work under any such agreements, or in aggregate under the contract. Each Provider should understand that their submission constitutes an acceptance to the Council of the terms of the Contract. The contract affords the Provider merely the opportunity to respond to an invitation from the Council for the provision of services (Call-Off). The Contract provides for no form of exclusivity or volume guarantee by the Council for Services from the Provider and the Council is at all times entitled to enter into other contracts and agreements with other Providers for the provision of any Services. Where a Service is required, the Council will approach the Provider for the service required and confirm with the Provider that they are able to provide the service required within the timescales. The capped daily or weekly rates submitted by the Provider in the Selection Questionnaire (Pricing Schedule) will be the maximum daily or weekly rate for the services. Suitability of the Provider will be determined by the following factors (in no particular order): • Appropriateness of service delivery provision • Location • Price • Service Users views and wishes Note - This is not an exhaustive list This procurement is issued under Direct Award Process B in line with the new Provider Selection Regime.

The NEPO512 - Translation and Interpreting Services DPS commenced on 1 September 2020 for a term of 60 months and was due to expire on 31 August 2025. The purpose of this notice is to extend the period of validity of the DPS for a period of 36 months from 31 August 2025 to 31 August 2028. To accommodate the extended period of validity and the anticipated value of future awards under the DPS, NEPO has revised the estimated total value (excluding VAT) for the DPS, increasing the total value to £20,000,000 over the term of the DPS. NEPO512 - Translation and Interpreting Services has been established as a 'Dynamic Purchasing System' under a flexible approached based on the concept of Regulation 34 via Schedule 3, under the principles set out in Regulation 74-77 ('The Light Touch Regime'). The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTender system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTender System. If not already registered, candidates should register on the NEPO eTender system at https://procontract.due-north.com/register. Tenders must be submitted using the link above. Tenders submitted via post or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your Tender please contact the System Support Team on 0330 0050352. For non time-critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information etc, please contact Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System(http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com . This will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk. NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of orders (if any) which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any Contracting Authority using the Dynamic Purchasing System pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof.