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Most public sector bodies have responsibility for their own purchasing and will advertise tenders on their own websites and in the local press.
Many councils and other organisations now have an on-line procurement portal where you can register and sign up for alerts.
This website aims can keep you up-to-date with opportunities in London & the South East with both the live feed from the Office of the Journal of the European Union (known as OJEU or TED) which is displayed on this page and we also keep an updated spreadsheet of local authority contracts in the region.
Follow the link on the left to download the contract spreadsheet.
In the long term, however, you may prefer to do some research of your own. This section lists the best places to look for opportunities.
Low-value Contracts (under £100,000)
If the total value of a contract is under £100,000, it is not required to be advertised nationally or across the EU. However, many public bodies are now choosing to use the government portal, www.supply2.gov.uk, which will send you daily alerts about contracts in your specified area.
High-value Contracts (over £100,000)
All contracts above £100,000 are required to be advertised across the European Union in accordance with Official Journal of the European Union.
The online portal which lists those contracts is called Tenders Electronic Daily or TED for short (www.ted.europa.eu).
The OJEU website can be confusing so consequently, there are a number of companies which will offer to search on your behalf for relevant contracts for a fee.
However, the TED website has recently set up an automatic pre-screened feed which can display Food & Agriculture tender opportunities in your internet web browser (eg. Internet Explorer). It updates itself every 24 hours and is easy to set up.
Download a step-by-step guide to setting up an OJEU feed on the left-hand side of the page.
NHS Contracts
The NHS has its own dedicated purchasing and supply agency called NHS Supply Chain which offers a good on-line guide to opportunities and associated standards for supplying the NHS (www.supplychain.nhs.uk)
It also has its own procurement portal where you can search for contract opportunities (www.pasa.bravosolution.com).
If you are intending to submit an Expression of Interest for an NHS contract, please leave yourself plenty of time as you will also need to set up your profile on their Supplier Information Database or SID.
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