title: Project Management Services for Replacement of Annunciator TV Head End System

description: The project comprises of the Replacement of the Annunciator TV Head End System to supply and install a new DVB-T broadcast system to connect onto the existing Parliamentary distribution infrastructures. The new system shall improve the selection of services including chamber and committee room feeds, regional news channels, subtitles and EPG. The system should to provide a distinct improvement in the Annunciator performance with quality of service and good value for money. Please note that the lead consultant’s organisation will not be able to bid for the Systems Integrator works tender . Requirements for a Project Manager to undertake: Ideally suited would be consultants experienced in managing the integration of multiplexing hardware, SDI decoder/encoder hardware, Logo Insertion hardware, EPG regeneration, subtitle distribution/time re-stamping equipment, and MHEG/Red button delivery equipment. It is desirable that they should be experienced in managing the distribution of Satellite and Freeview off-air channels, SDI feeds, and IP channel feeds using co-axial, fibre and IP networks across multiple sites. Please express your interest via the House of Commons procurement portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home Please note your expressions of interest via our In-Tend procurement portal to be received no later than 12noon Thursday 17 October2013.

The House of Commons

street: Westminster

postalCode: SW1A 0PW


scheme: CPV

title: Conisbrough Castle, Keep Lighting and Power Replacement

documentType: tenderNotice

description: Repalcement of exisiting power and lighting with in the Keep at Conisbrough Castle which involves removing the exisiting lighting, fittings and power supply. Install new distribution of lighting, power and fittings and all enabling works. The enabling works will require a specialist contractor with Historic knowledge and experience to lift/repalce/ammend exisiting oak timber work and flooring.

procurementMethod: open

mainProcurementCategory: works

English Heritage

street: 37 Tanner Row

postalCode: YO1 6WP

countryName: UK

initiationType: tender


title: OFT Provision of Specialist Staff - Investigations Officer - HRPROC 10-13

description: To pursue complaints and investigate, in appropriate circumstances: •suspected cartel agreements – these are considered to be the most serious breaches of the Competition Act 1998 (‘CA98’) •potential criminal cartel cases under the Enterprise Act 2002 (‘EA02’) •breaches of consumer protection law, including mass-market “scams”, under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) •assist other areas of the OFT, the European Commission (EC) and European Competition Network members in investigating other breaches of competition and consumer protection law.


name: Ministry of Defence - Defence Equipment and Support - ISS

title: Enabling Contract for the Supply of Mobile Phones to British Forces Germany

description: Supply of a Mobile Phone service to BFG for a period of 3 years with options to extend for a further 2 years


title: Return on investment tool for interventions and strategies to reduce alcohol misuse

description: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE or ‘the institute’) is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating disease. Within NICE the Centre for Public Health Excellence (CPHE) is responsible for producing public health guidance. In July 2011 NICE was asked by the Department of Health to develop a prototype model for local authority commissioners showing the potential return on investment (ROI) for health improvement interventions. The initial work which focused on tobacco control was published in October 2012 and is available on the NICE website at http://www.nice.org.uk/usingguidance/implementationtools/returnoninvesment/TobaccoROITool.jsp. The CPHE would like to appoint a contractor to develop a further ROI tool on interventions and strategies to reduce alcohol misuse. This tool should estimate the gross and net cost savings that could be achieved by having local interventions and strategies in a given geographical area e.g. region, county or local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The tool should have a user friendly interface that allows users to explore the short, medium and long term impact of different combinations of interventions and strategies (i.e. to explore the impact of different scenarios). The contractor will be provided with funding to develop the ROI tool, accompanying technical reports and user guides, and may be required to attend up to three regional workshops to demonstrate use of the tool and provide help and support to those using it. The contractor will be multidisciplinary and capable of providing high quality analyses and evidence to decision makers within very tight timescales. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a high calibre team to contribute to the work of the Institute.

mainProcurementCategory: services

street: MidCity Place,71 High Holborn

postalCode: WC1V 6NA


title: Provision of Microsoft Azure

description: The Provision of Microsoft Azure


title: Power Purchase Agreement

description: Power Purchase Agreements – Renewable Electricity. Government Procurement Service ( the Authority) is putting in place a Contract for Renewable Electricity. The Authority wishes to appoint either a single or multiple Potential Provider (s) who can supply renewable electricity to Government Procurement Service through a Power Purchase Agreement and Supplier Interface Agreement with the Authority's registered licensed supplier. This OJEU refers to the EU Definition of Renewable Electricity ‘http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/criteria/electricity.pdf taken on 24.8.2012 This tender is for the supply of for non-intermittent renewable electricity with a load factor on or above 80 % on average. CPV: 09310000, 09000000, 65400000.


name: Ministry of Defence - Defence Equipment and Support - Air Support

description: SPECIALIST TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO CERTIFICATION TEAM


name: Shropshire Healthcare Procurement Service

title: Endoscopy/CSSD Cleaning product

description:
Competition Title : Endoscopy/CSSD Cleaning product
 Competition Notes : Please provide a quotation for the items listed, prices to remain fixed for 2 years and we expect carriage to be free of charge, please indicate if this is not possible, quantities are approximate per annum, NHS terms and conditions apply, copy attached.

 For full details, see how to apply below.

street: 2 Douglas Court,Anchorage Avenue,Shrewsbury Business Park

postalCode: SY3 8XQ


title: Provision of Occupational Health Services

description: The Council (incorporating Hackney Homes and Hackney Learning Trust) wishes to appoint a service provider who can supply occupational health services to its employees. The successful Tenderer will provide an efficient and responsive occupational health service that provides the Council with professional advice that assists with the effective management of employee and prospective employee sickness absence and ill health matters The successful Tenderer will provide a multi-disciplinary team, including medical, nursing and occupational health expertise supported by effective administrative systems.

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

street: Town Hall,Mare Street

postalCode: E8 1EA


title: DigitalCity Barnard Castle: Satellite Animateur Invitation to Quote

description: DigitalCity Business [DCB] is the business driver for DigitalCity: its mission is to create a successful, vibrant and sustainable digital and creative supercluster in the Tees Valley. One of DCB’s tasks within this overall remit is to deliver cluster development activities across, with a new special focus on satellite activity across Tees Valley and the North East. It would now like to invite quotes for the role of animateur for the Baranrd Castle NeST Satellite, which will involve extensive working in Barnard Castle. The post is being offered as a freelance specialist with first hand experience of working with creative businesses. The contract length is up to the 31st March 2014: it anticipated it will require a commitment of approximately four days a week, irregular hours, and evening and weekend work to support activities being driven by the satellite initiative. Barnard Castle Vision has been working in partnership with DigitalCityBusiness since 2010 operating NeST gallery and artists’ studios in Barnard Castle as a rural satellite of DigitalCity Business. In that time NeST has created 10 new jobs, supported over 40 creative businesses through membership, coaching & mentoring and workshops. More than 100 artists have showcased their work. 2013 sees the opening of the new Witham in Barnard Castle. Funded in part through ERDF as move-on space for artists and businesses from NeST, the new Witham has a 250-seat auditorium, professional gallery space, meeting rooms and business facilities. Phase 1 of the project – Hall Street Artists studios is already open. The three operating organisations – DigitalCity Business, Barnard Castle Vision Community Interest Company and the Witham Hall Ltd are working together in partnership to support the digital and creative businesses of the town. With this in mind a contract opportunity for a creative animateur to co-ordinate and manage activity at NeST is being offered. NeST was one of the Vision’s first capital projects. The building opened in 2010 in a converted car showroom. It has become a busy business and creative hub offering studio space, office hot-desking facilities, a gallery and café. The contract will include running NeST and report to a management team comprising the directors of the Vision’s Community Interest Company working with DigitalCity Business. Key activities will be – • Programming the gallery spaces at NeST, selecting and hanging work, drafting artists agreements, managing payments to artists. This may include other spaces managed by the NeST gallery • The contract shall ensure that there will be a minimum of 4 days managerial presence at the NeST gallery; the remainder of the opening time will have to be covered by suitable volunteers under the control of this contractor • Recruiting, briefing and managing the team of member artists who staff the gallery at NeST • Developing and running the NeST business membership services • Being the link person with DigitalCity Business, ensuring that members at NeST and the Witham have access to the DigitalCity programme • Helping to organise creative business events, surgeries and workshops and to host events organised by partners • Providing regular written monitoring reports and evidence of engagement activities to the formats required by external funders and directors of Barnard Castle Vision Community Interest Company • Managing all forms of electronic communication including website and social media • Achieving quantitative KPIs including increasing sales/recruiting volunteers/building numbers on mailing list/communication targets including website management/weekly team meetings The animateur needs to have these key abilities – • Excellent organisational, communication and financial management skills • Excellent person-to-person skills • Practical experience of retail management • Project Management experience including experience in externally funded projects • Person business experience in the digital and creative sectors • Ability to work independently, including setting and meeting deadlines • Ambition • The ability to work as a member of a team, relating well with others, inspiring and enthusing volunteers and taking direction when required The contractor will most likely have either a degree in an appropriate field, or equivalent experience. The total value of the contract [or if there are contracts, the total aggregated value] will not exceed £20,000. If you wish to apply for this role please send – • Your CV [including two referees], together with - • A short explanation as to why you would be ideal for the role. It should be no more than two sides A4, single spaced, 10pt type, and be in either .doc, .docx or .pdf form • A clearly stated day rate for your work Your proposals must be submitted by email to the email address shown below. Quotations@Middlesbrough.gov.uk. Please ensure the subject line of the email returning the quotation includes the quotation reference number MBC000215 Without this number the e-quotations system will not accept the quotation. The closing date for submissions is 12PM on Friday 17th May If you require any further information prior to submitting your proposal please contact Daniel Watson at DigitalCity Business [Daniel.Watson@dcbusiness.eu].

DigitalCity

postalCode: TS2 1AE


name: Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Procurement - CMT SW&W

title: Relocation of Control Room at HMP Kirklevington

description: Relocation of control room at HMP Kirklevington


name: Department for International Development

title: DFID 6149 - Monitor Implementation of the Forest Governance Markets and Climate Programme (FGMC)

description: 1To ensure that FGMC activities are on track relative to the milestones set out in the programme logical framework and are contributing effectively to the Outputs and the Outcome. The services will be performed by a team with knowledge of and expertise in the subject matter covered by FGMC programme, including but not limited to: International trade in timber and other commodities, particularly agricultural commodity chains, and related controls and standards; Forest sector policy and legislative reform; Environmental and social issues in the forest sector, including those related to tenure rights, gender, poverty and livelihoods, and forests and climate change; International development and theory of change, and appropriate monitoring techniques to assess programme implementation. The services will include: Reviews of secondary information sources, including programme documents, country and regional strategy papers and other country-level documentation, completed studies and research reports, existing reviews and reports from consultations, European Council and European Commission statements and other deliberations, quarterly reports and highlights, NGO critiques, Ministers’ speeches and statements, press releases and media reports; Interviews with DFID, Defra, DECC and other government officials who have been engaged with the programme, with EC officials in Brussels, and representatives from the private sector and civil society who are interested or affected by the programme; and Sample on-site visits to evaluate activities being undertaken by grantees and contracted service providers, both in their home offices and in the field where they work. For guidance it is estimated that such field visits will include two visits each to Africa and Asia and one to Central or South America annually. This will include evaluation of the effectiveness of their internal monitoring systems. OUTPUTS The Service Provider will assess: the appropriateness of the log-frame indicators, verification methodologies, milestones and targets and recommend modifications, including: the data calculation methodologies for verifying indicators, the targets and expected results based on revised methodologies, and recommendations on which of the ICF Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can be integrated into the FGMC log frame; the assumptions used in the business case model for forecasting the expected results, recommend improvements, and suggest approaches to verifying achievement of results; the likelihood that each log-frame Output will contribute to the Outcome and Impact within the timeframe set out in the business case; whether or not the activities being implemented under each Output are coherent and relevant to achieving the Output and represent value for money, and whether any should be modified or discontinued, or if additional activities should be undertaken; whether or not the business case risks and assumptions are valid, whether any need to be modified, and whether any further actions should be undertaken to mitigate risks; the validity of the theory of change that underpins the programme intervention; the effectiveness with which FGMC has been integrated with DFID’s wider goals and the degree to which it has contributed to achievement of these; FGMC’s effectiveness in working with DFID’s relevant regional and country programmes, the EC, other national governments and multilateral agencies; FGMC’s effectiveness in working with other UK government departments, the private sector and civil society; and using DFID’s 5-point scoring system, as set out in the Annual Review Template, the extent to which the Programme’s current outputs are being achieved. The Service Provider will further identify: any strategic issues that need attention if FGMC is to achieve its Impact; priorities for further work that should be undertaken within the period to March 2015 to clarify indicators and achieve the Programme’s objectives; important lessons learnt to date and further work needed to analyse, document and disseminate them; and prior to the end of the current funding period (31 March 2015), recommendations for continuation of the programme.


title: DP1 Ground Floor East Wing CL3 labs ETP Solution

description: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) requires a contractor to provide a ‘turnkey’ package solution to supply and install a localised effluent treatment system for the DP1 Ground Floor East Wing CL3 labs at The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF

mainProcurementCategory: goods

UK Shared Business Services Ltd.

street: North Star House,North Star Avenue

postalCode: SN2 1FF


title: Collection and disposal of asbestos from household waste recycling centres in Warwickshire

description: Collection and/or disposal of asbestos from three Warwickshire Household Waste Recycling Centres. Contract term: Two years with the option to extend by up to three additional 12 month periods.

Warwickshire County Council

street: PO Box 43,Shire Hall

postalCode: CV34 4SX


name: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

title: Delivery of the requirements of Article 4 of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive; and to carry out an evaluation of regulatory and non-regulatory barriers to energy efficiency (Northern Ireland only) as required by Article 19(1)(a) of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive

description: This contract requires a contractor to provide support to compile “a long-term strategy for mobilising investment in the renovation of the national stock of residential and commercial buildings, both public and private”, compliant with Article 4 of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive; and to carry out an evaluation of regulatory and non-regulatory barriers to energy efficiency in Northern Ireland compliant with Article 19(1)(a) of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive.

street: 2A,3, Whitehall Place

postalCode: SW1A 2AW


title: GB-Leicester: Supply of an Electronic Rostering, Scheduling and Monitoring System Work Package for Leicester City Council’s Reablement Service

description: Leicester City Council is inviting tenders on the terms set out in this Invitation to Tender (ITT) for the supply of an Electronic Rostering, Scheduling and Monitoring System Work Package for Leicester City Council’s Reablement Service for 145 Social Care Assistants. There are two key requirements which underpin this. Firstly, the supplier must demonstrate that they are already interfacing with Liquidlogic (which is now the chosen care system provider for Adult Social Care), or alternatively in a position whereby they can interface with Liquidlogic prior to the contract start date (12/08/13). This first requirement is essential of the contract, therefore failure to meet this requirement will result in your bid not being considered. Secondly, the system must demonstrate user friendly functionality whilst achieving significant levels of efficiency by moving away from various manual processes. Running parallel with this project will be an Organisation Review which needs to achieve efficiency and significant savings based on the benefits that will be derived by introducing this system. This should be returned by 2.00pm on 20th May 2013. To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/G2CNC4937N If you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0845 270 7050 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.

Leicester City Council

street: B Block, New Walk Sentry,Welford Place

postalCode: LE1 6ZG


title: Lock Rafts for South East Region

description: The fabrication, building and delivery to site of four aluminium work rafts, to the specification of the plans to be provided.

Environment Agency

street: Kings Meadow House,Kings Meadow Road

postalCode: RG1 8DQ


title: DECC Heating Controls Advice Trial Evaluation

description: DECC would like to commission an evaluation of a randomised control trial to understand whether providing advice from a trusted messenger changes heating behaviour in the home. This evaluation will provide evidence about whether the DECC Heating Control Advice Trial has met its objectives and whether the delivery of the trial adhered to the trial implementation plan. The trial will be piloted over summer 2013, and rolled out over winter 2013/14, with the final data expected in spring 2014. This evaluation will cover the whole time period of the trial, and report in summer 2014. The trial will take place in Newcastle in partnership with Newcastle City Council and the Behaviour Insights Team.

street: Area 1C,3, Whitehall Place


title: Air assisted patient transfer sy

description:
Competition Title : Air assisted patient transfer sy
 Competition Notes : Please complete attached document. NHS Terms and Conditions apply

 For full details, see how to apply below.


name: Ministry of Defence - Defence Equipment and Support - ISTAR

title: In-service support to MPDS

description: In-service support to MPDS


title: LSBU5/SPARES LSBU5/0027/6

description: GENERAL SUPPORT CONTRACT


title: Deep Rummage Radios - 00110 P Tunney BF 09.01.2013

description: The provision of Deep Rummage Radios for the UK Border Force. All goods must be delivered and accepted by f/y end

PCoE - Procurement Centre of Excellence

street: Room 2Y92 Concept House,Cardiff Road

postalCode: NP10 8QQ


title: Operational Associates Online Facilitator and Developers

description: The requirement The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) is seeking to engage a team of up to four Online Facilitator and Developers as associates to the NCTL, in order to support the following activities: Predominantly to deliver: 1. The on-going development and delivery of the Advance Online Facilitation and Tutoring (OFAT 2) course. 2. Facilitation of NCTL National online communities and possible online short courses 3. The development of Licensee Lead Online Learning Specialists role and supporting resources. There may be a further opportunity to: 4. Support the design, development and/or facilitation of online products, including online short courses. We will be inviting bids from those successfully approved onto the National College Operational Associates Framework by Midday Friday 26th July. This requirement will be launched on the following framework CB17. Please see below for details of how to register on the framework. The role Delivery and on-going development of the Advance Online Facilitation and Tutoring (OFAT 2) course: The Online Facilitator and Tutoring (OFAT) suite of courses provide professional development so that: • Those acting as facilitators in relation to NCTL products can work effectively online to support participant’s learning • Members of the NCTL can develop skills, knowledge and understanding of facilitating online learning to use in their own work and across organisations • Members of the NCTL staff and those working in organisations delivering NCTL products can develop skills, knowledge and understanding of facilitating online learning, developing and quality assuring the online facilitation skills of others OFAT courses progressively cover: • an introduction to the skills required to promote learning in an online community, the philosophies and theories that underpin learning in an online community of practice and how learning is manifested online especially using the NCTL online systems • Particularly for this role: supporting the advanced understanding and experience of facilitating online adult learning in the ever-changing context of digital media. NCTL National online communities and possible facilitation of online short courses Facilitating a national community involves developing a range of online activities for participants, including hosting online communities and seminars, developing learning activities and working closely with managers at NCTL to meet the needs of participants. This would include the gathering of intelligence on current topics of interest on behalf of NCTL. An online short course is a fully online course of varied duration in which participants engage in a number of collaborative and discursive activities in online groups closely facilitated by a subject matter expert and skilled online facilitator. The development of Licensee Lead Online Learning Specialists role and supporting resources Lead Online learning Specialists: Each of the licensees delivering the NCTL leadership curriculum are required to have a Lead Online Learning Specialist whose role is work alongside other licensee key staff, such as Lead Facilitators, to deliver the leadership curriculum to suit their context. This will involve being responsible for the quality of their own and other online facilitators working for Licensees. Support the design and/or development of online products Designing, developing, creating and testing online learning content to a specific brief and supporting the operational work of online design and development colleagues at NCTL. The Operational Associate will be required to be available for a minimum of 28 days and up to a maximum of 100 days with agreement between the Middle of August 2013 to the end of July 2014 inclusive.

Department for Education

postalCode: postcode


title: DECC Smart Metering Implementation Programme:Smart Meters Behaviour Change Interventions – Lead Generation

description: Background The Government’s vision is for every home and smaller businesses in Great Britain to have smart electricity and gas meters. Domestic consumers will also be offered an in-home display (IHD). The rollout of smart meters will play an important role in Britain’s transition to a low-carbon economy and help us meet some of the long-term challenges we face in ensuring an affordable, secure and sustainable energy supply. The Government is committed to a comprehensive roll-out of smart meters, involving the installation of over 53 million meters in domestic and small and medium non domestic premises by 2019. In Great Britain, we are adopting a supplier-led approach to roll-out. We have decided not to impose constraints on suppliers in relation to planning, coordination or customer prioritisation and judge that this flexibility will enable them to deliver their roll-out programmes in the most efficient way, reflecting the needs and distribution of their customer base. This non geographic approach to roll-out should be taken into account by contractors. Consumers will only receive the full benefits of smart meters if they use them to change their energy consuming behaviours. The first step in achieving this is to fully understand what drives energy-consuming behaviours and hence how best to enable consumers to change their behaviours. The Programme has accumulated a good overview of evidence in relation to effective smart metering consumer engagement; however, there is still important work to be done in preparing for mass roll-out. Further work during Foundation Stage will include gathering early insights into consumer benefits and how they may differ by consumer type; measuring awareness and attitudes towards smart meters; and learning more about what works in changing energy consuming behaviours. DECC would like to commission a number of contractors to plan, deliver and evaluate behaviour change interventions designed to reduce energy consumption (gas and electricity) within the home, which could be deployed alongside the roll-out of smart meters. This includes a number of contractors to run behaviour change interventions and a contractor to provide independent process and impact evaluation of these interventions. Interventions should focus on the framing, content and use of community, third sector, or peer to peer messengers to deliver advice and guidance and motivational campaigns to promote energy saving behaviour. This research will test these interventions in small scale studies gathering qualitative and quantitative data for impact and process evaluation. The most promising interventions may be tested at a larger scale at a later date as part of Phase 2. This may be tendered separately, or where appropriate may be undertaken as a contract extension from this tender. Requirements Main Research Lot 1: Data Collection and Independent Evaluation This lot will cover working with successful contractors for lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to refine trial design; collect data; interpret findings; and provide a synthesised report setting out the findings from this Programme of research. The contractor for this lot will provide a final report setting out whether the interventions tested appear to be successful in driving energy saving behaviour; whether they were cost effective and potentially scalable; how they worked in practice; which interventions are worthy of further experimental testing; and what lessons are to be learned for such future testing. Lot 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7: Interventions These lots will cover designing and running trials to test interventions that would be deployable alongside smart meters. Flexibility will be required on the final trial design as comparability across different interventions is desirable and this may require changes to be made. Bidders can bid to trial interventions based on those listed in Annex A, variations of these, or interventions which the bidder has run successfully in a different context, and which have potential to change domestic energy consuming behaviour. The work tendered under these lots includes designing and planning the trials (using a counterfactual where possible), recruiting people to take part and running the intervention. Data collection is likely to be undertaken by the successful contractor to lot 1.

street: Orchard 2 Lower Ground,1 Victoria Street

postalCode: SW1H 0ET


name: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

title: Oracle Business Intelligence Installation, Training & Support

description: The specific requirement is for a specialist business intelligence provider to provide installation, implementation, training and support for the introduction of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) with the option of supporting the Trusts current Hyperion installation.

postalCode: BN2 5BE


title: GB-Leeds: RIT1074 - Technical Services for AIDC Programme

description: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is looking for a supplier with in-depth expertise, knowledge, and experience of creating and implementing GS1 standards in healthcare to provide GS1 technical services in the following two areas, to help NHS organisations in England get the maximum benefit from their GS1 membership: • Organise and run 5 specialist “GS1 Awareness” events held nationally at a regional level. • Development of extended guidelines for GS1 asset tracking applications.

street: 1 Trevelyan Square

postalCode: LS1 6AE


title: Midas Rex Drill

description:
Competition Title : Midas Rex Drill
 Competition Notes : Please quote to supply the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with the stated equipment plus consumables for a 3 year agreement and maintenance. Please Note Terms of Reference & Terms & Conditions attached Chris Lockyear submitted quote ref. R2034CL to the Trust but due to the value exceeding the Trusts quotation limit need an official quote, also I need the full life costs hence the requirement to cost the consumables & maintenance costs.

 For full details, see how to apply below.


title: Print Tender

description:
Action for Children is a leading children’s charity with approximately 650 services throughout the UK.

 Action for Children aims to continually improve efficiency, effectiveness and long-term security, one of our three primary strategic objectives. We are therefore seeking expressions of interest from established suppliers for the provision of Corporate Print Framework, which will deliver quality goods to services and projects.

 The tender will be divided into the following ‘lots’:

 1. Lithographic and Digital Print

 2. Large Format Digital

 3. Merchandise, Clothing and Promotional items

 The supplier(s) must provide the goods and services across the UK and have a clear understanding of Action for Children.

 Further information will be available on the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ).

 (MT Ref:108897)

Action for Children

street: 3, The Boulevard,Ascot Road,Corporate Procurement

postalCode: WD18 8AG


name: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

title: Delaying Disability Evidence Review

description: NICE has been asked by the Department of Health (DH) to develop public health guidance on preventive approaches to be adopted in mid-life to delay the onset of disability, dementia and frailty in later life. The guidance will be developed by a Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC). This PHAC will make recommendations based on reviews of evidence that utilise a range of types of different evidence and information, including quantitative, qualitative, grey and good practice evidence, process evaluations, cost-effectiveness data and a cost-effectiveness analysis (the economic model is subject to a separate tender). The draft scope for the guidance defines the interventions, population and key research questions and outcomes to be covered by the evidence reviews.

street: 10 Spring Gardens

postalCode: SW1A 2BU


name: Staffordshire County Council Staffordshire Procurement

title: Adult and Community Learning Service

description: Staffordshire County Council (the Council) Adult and Community Learning (ACL) service currently works with schools, colleges, third sector organisations, training providers and local community groups to deliver a range of learning opportunities for adults and families across Staffordshire. For 2012/13 the learning opportunities were secured through an open and competitive tendering process for external providers and through an application for funding process for internal Council departments. We structured our programmes into four main “lots”- Personal Community Development Learning (PCDL), Formal First Steps (FFS), Wider Family Learning (WFL), and Family English, Maths and Language (FEML). In addition, we specified specialist provision that would meet the needs of learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities within PCDL and FFS programmes. Provision was secured for 2012/13 with an option to extend contracts for services and service level agreements for a further two years. For the 2013/14 academic year the ACL service utilised the option to extend its contract for services and service level agreements and undertook a negotiated commissioning approach for its community learning provision. This process did not secure the required geographical coverage for the PCDL and the FEML programmes. The purpose of this open and competitive tendering process is to secure further PCDL provision in Newcastle-under-Lyme and East Staffordshire and FEML provision in Newcastle-under-Lyme in order to fill this provision gap.

street: Wedgwood Building,Tipping Street

postalCode: ST16 2DH


title: Maintenance , Support & Consumables for a Wide Format Printer

description: The Agency requires a provision for the support and maintenance of the Xerox 8264E wide format printer, Summa T series S160 Cutter and associated Dell Optiplex 760 PC Linux operating system with Caldera Rip software. There is the requirement for the contingency to order print and operator consumables. The maintenance and consumables contract is due to last for a minimum of 1 year with the option to extend for a further 1 year.

Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency

street: Commercial Serices Group,C2 West, Longview Road,Morriston

postalCode: SA6 7JL


title: Wireless Network Review

description:
GMC IS has seen an increasing demand from the business of the wireless network over the last few months. They are looking to review the entire wireless network, with a view to upgrading and improving where necessary to ensure there is adequate capacity and resilience, consistency across the entire estate.

 (MT Ref:104985)

General Medical Council

street: 3 Hardman Street,Procurement

postalCode: M3 3AW


title: GB-LEICESTER: MAJOR REFURBISHMENT AND MODERNISATION OF ELECTRIC TRACTION PASSENGER LIFTS IN HIGH RISE DOMESTIC BUILDINGS

description: Applications are invited from suitably experienced service providers wishing to tender for the provision of major refurbishment and modernisation of a total of 8 number electric traction passenger lifts in high rise domestic buildings for Leicester City Council.

LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL

street: Corporate Procurement Team,New Walk Centre,Welford Place

name: Andrew Flood - Procurement Category Manager


title: Provision of a Safety Case for the Replacement Secure Management Radio Equipment (RSMRE.)

description: Provision of a Safety Case in respect of the Replacement Secure Management Radio System equiopmenbt (RSMRE).


title: External Digital Printing & Scanning Services

description: Case teams occasionally receive large amounts of documentation in relation to casework. In the majority of situations the case will be high profile and fast paced. It is important to have access to a local service that can scan/copy these large volumes at short notice and return them to TPR quickly and accurately in an appropriate format. The need for a local provider is due to the fact that the information can arrive in hard copy format. The files will need to be transported to and from the provider therefore any location outside of Brighton would mean an unreasonable delay. The documents are likely to be used in cases involving external legal Counsel and must therefore stand up to the highest levels of scrutiny; potentially a court of law.

Pensions Regulator

postalCode: BN1 4DW


title: Foul and Surface Pumping Chambers and Water Pressurisation Units

description: For the provision of Pre Planned Maintenance and Reactive Call outs for Foul & Surface Pumping Chambers and Water Pressurisation Units throughout the Trust

Leaseguard Group Limited

street: Overy Court, Overy,Dorchester on Thames

postalCode: OX10 7JU


title: Portakabin internal refurbishments and external works

description: Humber NHS Foundation Trust is looking to enter into a contract with a principle contractor to carry out internal refurbishment and external works to an existing Portakabin and the surrounding location. Additional details can be accessed via the e-tendering portal detailed below

Humber NHS Foundation Trust

street: Willerby Hill,Beverley Road

postalCode: HU10 6ED


title: Supply and Install Kitchen at the Medical Research Council, Cambridge)

description: Supply and Install Kitchen at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge) as per the list of requirements on the tender document.

RCUK SSC Ltd

street: North Star House,North Star Avenue

postalCode: SN2 1FF


title: FOR THE PROVISION OF ACAS DATA SOURCING,CLEANSING AND MAILING HOUSE PROVISION

description: ACAS SPECIFICATION FOR DATA SOURCING, MANAGEMENT OF DATA CLEANSING, MAILING HOUSE DATA PROVISION AND OPT-IN PROJECT


name: Department of Health - Connecting for Health

title: Nesstar Suite Licence Renewal

description: Renewal of Nesstar Licence


title: Alteration to the North Block, Civic Centre, Southampton

description: Southampton City Council invites applications from the suitably experienced contractors who wish to tender for four contracts: Lot 1 Works: Provision of new containment and power supplies to North Block Ground Floor and Lower Ground Floor Offices, including some alterations to the existing power and containment installations. Lot 2 Works: Provision of new WC facilities in existing office to the North Block Ground Floor. Works include local stripping out, the formation of new studwork walls and internal doors, sanitaryware and drainage installations, new ceiling, floor and wall finishes, and provision of new water, lighting, power, and ventilation services. Lot 3 Works: Provision of new Supervision Rooms in existing office to the Lower Ground Floor of the North Block. Works include the formation of new studwork walls and internal doors, new ceiling, floor and wall finishes, and provision of new lighting, power, and ventilation services. Lot 4 Works: Formation of storage in existing former offices to the Police Block. Works include the removal of existing internal walls, and local areas of making good to existing walls, floor and ceilings, and the installation of new internal lighting to the areas. The North Block has recently been refurbished and will be partially occupied while the works are carried out. Estimated value between £50,000 and £100,000 for each lot Deadlines for submission of prequalification questionnaires are to be by the 13th of December 2013. Time 12:00. The programme is still being developed but is anticipated to be as follows: Tender Documents will be issued in January 2013 with a commencement on site ASAP but likely to be in March 2014. The expected duration of the works in the range of 5 to 9 weeks per lot, the period varies between lots. It is anticipated that a minimum of three and maximum of six contractors will be invited to tender for the works.

Southampton City Council

street: One Guildhall Square

postalCode: SO14 7FP


title: Angel Accelerator

description: Angel Accelerator is an extension of the Jisc-funded Open LivIn project and will build on software developed during the course of that project. It will also continue to use the existing community of entrepreneur-consultants (The Innovation Commons) and expand the community into a ‘crowd’ of entrepreneurs, investors and high net worth individuals. The Accelerator project aims to increase angel investment in opportunities which have been pre-filtered and matched with development resources via The Innovation Commons. The project will de-risk investments for angels by [1] Syndicating angels for joint investment - merging crowd-funding with angel syndication [2] providing angels with investible pre-filtered and investible ideas [3] helping angels to match market-worthy projects with public funding sources.

Liverpool John Moores University

street: Kingsway House,Finance (4th Floor),Hatton Garden

postalCode: L3 2AJ


title: CDM Coordinator Services

description: The Council wishes to secure CDM Coordinator services as defined by the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007 (CDM Regulations) up to and including RIBA Stage 3 associated with the delivery of the Council’s Tamworth Assembly Rooms Development Programme. Further details & documentation are available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/tamworthbc

Tamworth Borough Council

street: Corporate Finance 8th Floor,Tamworth Borough Council,Lichfield Street

postalCode: B79 7BZ


title: Career Devlopment and Personal Skills

description: The Environment Agency wishes to offer a development experience that gives individuals the opportunity to overcome progression barriers associated with issues of personal beliefs and self confidence.

Environment Agency

street: Horizon House,Deanery Road

postalCode: BS1 5AH


title: Provision of Various Day Nursery Services

description: The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is advertising to seek tenders from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to take on the operation of Various Day Nursery Services in the Borough. The selected organisations will be expected to work with Barking and Dagenham Council to ensure the provision of good quality and affordable childcare in its Goresbrook, Heath and Longbridge wards. The Council are tendering the following nurseries. Organisations will only be able to tender for one Lot. (Lot 1) Arden House and Halbutt Street Day Nurseries: (Address: Arden House, 198 Londbridge Road, Barking, IG11 8SY and Halbutt Street, 202a Halbutt Street, Dagenham, RM9 5AA. Arden House and Halbutt Street nurseries are buildings that are currently being re-developed. The Council are refurbishing, re-modelling and equipping the buildings. Actual start dates of the contracts/leases will be dependent on the completion of any capital works. Arden House Day Nursery is expected to provide care for approximately fifty seven (57) children within an age range of three (3) months to five (5) years. Opening hours for the nursery will be Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm for fifty one (51) weeks a year. The contract and co-terminous lease for the nursery are expected to be for a period of seven (7) years and may be extended for a further period of three (3) years subject to performance and at the sole discretion of the Council. The contract and co-terminous lease is expected to commence on 1st June 2014, but this commencement date is not guaranteed and the commencement date may be later. Halbutt Street Day Nursery is expected to provide care for approximately sixty nine (69) children within an age range of three (3) months to five (5) years. Opening hours for the nursery will be Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm for fifty one (51) weeks a year. The contract and co-terminous lease for the nursery are expected to be for a period of seven (7) years and may be extended for a further period of three (3) years subject to performance and at the sole discretion of the Council. The contract and co-terminous lease is expected to commence on 1st September 2014, but this commencement date is not guaranteed and the commencement date may be later. (Lot 2) Castle Green Day Nursery (Address: Gale Street, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 4UN) provides care for approximately seventy nine (79) children within an age range of three (3) months to five (5) years. Opening hours for the nursery will be Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm for fifty one (51) weeks a year. This is a re-tender of the current service and organisations should be aware that Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 may apply. The contract and co-terminous lease for the nursery are expected to be for a period of seven (7) years commencing on 1st September 2014 and may be extended for a further period of three (3) years subject to performance and at the sole discretion of the Council. Castle Green Children’s Centre Day Nursery was part of an ambitious £30 million pound Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project that comprised of a secondary school, public library, sport facilities and community services, it opened in September 2005. In conjunction with the PFI contract there are facilities management teams who ensure that the facility is maintained to a high standard and that premises are used in accordance to regulation and specification. Any preferred provider must be prepared to adhere to and follow all PFI contractual arrangements. Organisations who wish to tender must be able to demonstrate five (5) years relevant experience, currently be running an Ofsted registered day nursery rated “Good” or “Outstanding”, or where the organisation is running more than one nursery have 50% of its nurseries rated “Good” or Outstanding” and must be prepared to work in partnership with the Local Authority and adhere to a strict performance monitoring programme, including site visits. Organisations must also have proven financial stability and a commitment to quality, inclusion and continuous improvement.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

street: Procurement Support Officer,Town Hall,Town Square

postalCode: IG11 7LU


title: Green Deal Delivery Partner

description: Norwich City Council is procuring the services of a suitably accredited supplier to act as a partner in delivering the Green deal to privately owned dwellings across the city. This will include the provision of finance, accessing funding, marketing, and developing an supporting a network of local installers to offer a full range of measures available through the Green Deal.

Norwich City Council

street: Norwich City Council,City Hall

postalCode: NR2 1NH


title: DFID 6513 Technical Assistance (TA) Component of the Education Sector Budget Support Programme in Zambia

description: The Objective DFID is seeking a Service Provider experienced in the education sector to provide the TA component of the SBS programme in Zambia, on behalf of DFID. The scope of services will include within the TA component: • programme and contract management, • management and accountability for end to end procurement activities, • management of and accountability for suppliers and programme partners, • stakeholder engagement, • working with local government, local communities, suppliers, and NGOs for effective implementation and to build their capacity in the delivery of the Programme Outputs.


title: Midas Rex Drill

description:
Competition Title : Midas Rex Drill
 Competition Notes : As per RA146073 but option if Trust buys 2x Console Please quote to supply the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with the stated equipment plus consumables for a 3 year agreement and maintenance. Please Note Terms of Reference & Terms & Conditions attached Chris Lockyear submitted quote ref. R2034CL to the Trust but due to the value exceeding the Trusts quotation limit need an official quote, also I need the full life costs hence the requirement to cost the consumables & maintenance costs.

 For full details, see how to apply below.

street: 2 Douglas Court,Anchorage Avenue,Shrewsbury Business Park

postalCode: SY3 8XQ


title: GB-Manchester: Manchester Cleaning

description: The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (known as the Equality and Human Rights Commission) wishes to contract with a service provider to provide Cleaning services for its Manchester office. Suppliers should note that the 'Open' Procedure is being used, i.e. this is a one stage process - i.e. there is no Expression of Interest stage. The proposed Timetable is as follows: - Tender Submission Deadline:- 13:00 Tuesday 11th June; Desktop Evaluations and short listing if required by :- Thursday 13th June; Presentations :- Wednesday 19th June; Contract award :- Friday 21st June. Full tender documentation can be requested by emailing (with subject line ‘EHRC132/2013 Cleaning’) tenders@equalityhumanrights.com.

street: Arndale House,Arndale Centre

postalCode: M4 3AQ


currency: GBP

documentType: awardNotice

title: EU Bid Writing Consultant

description: Aston University seeks bid-writing support for H2020 collaborative proposals, where Aston leads. We request support for our two largest schools, Engineering and Applied and Science (EAS) and Life and Health Sciences (LHS). In total we request support for eight projects over a 12 month period.


name: West Northamptonshire Development Corporation

title: Outplacement Services

description: WNDC is due to cease operating on 31 Mach 2014 with staff facing redundancy. WNDC wishes to provide outplacement services to support staff in the next stage of their career post WNDC. The provider will be required to provide the following services in a cost effective structure: * Tailored one to one advice/coaching * Skills assessments * Psychometric tools * Exploring options * Job search strategies/self employment options * Cv preparation/interview skills and techniques * Helpline * Access to job search information, development materials In addition to one to one programmes for individual members of staff the provider will be required to run group workshops covering a range of topics such as CV preparation, interviewing skills, social media, networking, managing change. As part of the pricing schedule the provider is asked to set out the programme support it would recommend for members of staff at various levels: *Senior managers (6) *Professional/technical and middle managers (8) *Junior/administrative staff (11) Costs should be on a fixed fee basis. Costs for the programme of workshops should be quoted separately.

street: PO Box 355,Franklin's Gardens

postalCode: NN5 5WU


title: Revalidation Appraiser Skills Workshop

description: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offers a wide range of health and social care services in South East London, specialising in community health, mental health and learning disability services. We have been the main provider of specialist mental health care in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich for more than ten years and have developed a comprehensive portfolio of services in community and hospital settings. We provide adult learning disability services across Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich as well as forensic mental health care across south east London and in Kent Prisons. We also provide a range of physical health services to adults and children in the community in the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich. These range from health visitors and community midwives working with the very young to district nurses and therapists meeting the physical health needs of older people. Revalidation is a new way of regulating licensed doctors, aimed at providing further assurance to patients, that their doctors are up to date and fit to practice. Licensed doctors will have to revalidate, every five years, by undertaking annual appraisals that are based on the core guidance found in the 'Good Medical Practice' presented by the General Medical Council (GMC). All doctors that are licensed to practice will need to revalidate. Revalidation recommendations will be based on appraisals conducted in the year(s) preceding the recommendation date which incorporate patient and colleague feedback relevant to the doctors’ current scope of practice. Oxleas uses the Strengthened Appraisal and Revalidation Database (SARD) which is a secure, internet based revalidation system, focusing on two key areas, appraisal form completion and portfolio building. It allows Doctors to gather all the required information needed for their appraisal. SARD also offers robust appraiser and responsible officer dashboards to monitor activity and compliance.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

postalCode: DA16 1RH


title: Chichester District Council Wellbeing. Active Older People Project

description: Overview Chichester District Council is seeking to commission a service provider to develop and deliver a project which promotes and provides physical activity programmes to inactive or moderately inactive older people in the district. This service contract is for the period September 2013 – March 31st 2016 subject to successful evaluation, delivery of agreed outcomes and availability of funding. The Council receives funding annually from West Sussex County Council Public Health. If this funding is not provided or not provided to the same level, the Council will terminate the contract in line with the terms and conditions set out in the contract. Rationale Preventing cardiovascular disease is a key Public Health priority across West Sussex and this project forms part of a range of initiatives aimed at tackling the risk factors associated with this disease. An important part of addressing this problem is encouraging and enabling the local population, whatever their age to exercise regularly. Chichester District has a high proportion of older people, especially those aged 85+ which is set to increase over the coming years. Keeping the older population healthy and active is a priority for public sector agencies and partners. The focus for the wellbeing programme in relation to older people is to support them to be physically active, socially connected and to remain independent and healthy for longer into older age.

Chichester District Council

street: 1 East Pallant


title: Research Tender: Research for Patient Benefit Competition 21

description: The Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme is a national, response-mode funding scheme that has been established in order to fund high quality research that will be directed at achieving benefit for users of the NHS in England. Applications will be considered by one of ten 'Regional Advisory Committees' and applications that relate to health service challenges, regionally or locally, will be particularly welcome. As a responsive rather than a commissioning programme, RfPB does not seek to name specific topic areas and welcomes applications on a wide range of issues. Potential applicants are encouraged to visit the programme website (www.rfpb.nihr.ac.uk) for the most up-to-date information before submitting an application. There is a regularly updated list of ‘frequently asked questions’ (FAQs) on the RfPB website to supplement this guidance.


title: Purchase of Total Bacteriology Automation Systems

description: To supply Total Bacteriology Automation Systems as per the specification in the tender documentation (OJEU to be published). Included in this requirement will be delivery, installation, training and warranty.


title: Occupational Health & EAP Services - North Warwickshire & Hinckley and South Leicestershire Colleges

description: North Warwickshire & Hinckley College and South Leicestershire College are looking to appoint 1 or 2 suppliers to provide Occupational Health Services (Lot 1) and EAP Services (Lot 2) to both organisataions.Both lots encompass a range of services that each organisation may utilise if and when required.The contract will also be open for other organisations related to the Colleges via legal arrangements to access during the term of the agreement.The contract start date is 1st April 2013.The term of the contract is 1 year with option to extend for a further 2 years on a 1+1 basis.It is envisaged that if all parties are satisfied with the contract it will run for the full 3 year term.To request the tender document please send an email to marie.caves@nwhc.ac.uk no later than Tuesday 29th January 2013.Please state OCC HEALTH and EAP TENDER in the subject of the email.The tender documents will be issued to all EOI via email on Wednesday 30th January 2013. (MT Ref:103617)

North Warwickshire & Hinckley College

street: Hinckley Road,Estates

postalCode: CV11 6BH


title: Risk Factor Based Modelling for Public Health England

description: Public Health England (PHE) plan to develop a Health and Wellbeing Framework to be published in the summer of 2014. This Framework will include a predictive model for the public’s health describing possible future scenarios. PHE will be tendering for a supplier to develop a model to project trends for future disease burdens up to 20 years from the current date. PHE will agree a range of scenarios with the supplier projecting different levels of key risk factors. The supplier should be able to model the impact of changing levels of some risk factors as a minimum (e.g. smoking and obesity). Ideally the supplier will be able to model the effects of changing several risk factors simultaneously, and their interactions with one another. This model must enable the supplier to produce a report for each of the scenarios agreed covering: • Overall life expectancy • Healthy life expectancy • Disability Adjusted Life Years/ Quality Adjusted Life Years • Levels of the main diseases driving morbidity and mortality

Public Health England

street: Public Health England,61 Colindale Avenue

postalCode: NW9 5EQ


title: Strategic Marketing Service for the National Biologics Centre

description:
Framework agreement for a single supplier of a Strategic Marketing Service for the National Biologics Manufacturing Centre

 (MT Ref:108988)

Centre for Process Innovation Limited

street: The Wilton Centre,Wilton

postalCode: TS10 4RF


title: Testing of Fire Damper to include ad hoc repairs

description: Bradford District Care Trust invite expressions of interest for the Testing of Fire Dampers to include ad hoc repairs at various locations, 1 test per annum to each location. Please note qualification detail on appendix 1.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

street: Supplies Department ,Skipton Road,Steeton

postalCode: BD20 6TD


title: HR Programme

description: HR Programme E-ACT is a leading education sponsor, formed as a not-for-profit social enterprise, developing successful academies and free schools across England. We are setting new standards in educational excellence working closely with parents and partner organisations. Further details can be obtained at www.E-ACT.org.uk The purpose of the HR programme is to build capacity in Academies through a targeted training and development programme for HR staff in E-ACT Academies. This will provide E-ACT with a cost effective solution to developing HR locally through intensive training and development over an initial period of 12 months. Tender documentation is available from Ian McConaghy, Interim Director of HR Tel: 020 3176 3909 Email: ian.mcconaghy@E-ACT.org.uk

E-ACT

street: 3rd Floor,10 Whitfield Street

postalCode: W1T 2RE


title: Norfolk Strategic Partnership - Surfacing, Planing & Patching Works

description: The Norfolk Strategic Partnership is a long term Highways Maintenence Contract between May Gurney, Norfolk County Council & Mott MacDonald. The Partnership has established a unified team culture, with shared objectives, and an effective joint management and decision-making structure. We provide best value by improving efficiency in the delivery of projects and services. We are looking for local and regional Supply Chain Partners to support us in delivering highways maintenance services and improvement schemes throughout Norfolk. The asset includes: 9800km of county road network (with 3200km priority network gritted per run), 4100km of footways, 137,000 gullies, 50,000 streetlights, 2000 bridges and other structures and 2,700 smaller culverts, 375 signal controlled junctions and crossings and 453 Vehicle-activated speed signs. We will be looking to subcontract Surfacing, Planing and Patching works on this Contract from 1st April 2013.


title: Growth Vouchers

description: In the Budget, the Government announced its intention to run a GBP 30 million programme in England to test a variety of innovative approaches to helping SMEs overcome barriers to achieving growth.The programme has 3 objectives: 1. To increase the growth of businesses participating in the programme. 2. To develop a better understanding of how to encourage firms to seek advice, and of what types of advice and delivery models work best. 3. To create a more dynamic and competitive market for business advice that will help small firms overcome some of the known market failures that currently exist. We know that firms who seek external advice are more likely to grow than those that don't. While this view is widely held, there remains a lack of robust evidence to support this statement as well as a lack of evidence about what kinds of business advice might work best. Our current understanding of the market suggests that small firms are deterred from seeking advice because: (a) they don't know what is available; (b) it is difficult to assess how advice would benefit them (c) they don't know who to trust and (d) they can't compare offer and price (and assess value for money). The Growth Vouchers programme will test a wide range of business support interventions including the use of subsidies to identify what has the greatest impact in terms of business growth. We will evaluate the programme in a variety of ways, including using Randomised Controlled Trials to compare the performance of businesses who receive support against those that do not. We will use the results from the programme to feed into future Government policy on business advice. The programme is focussed on helping micro and small businesses with up to 49 employees. In order to test the barriers that are preventing businesses from seeking advice we aim to target firms that have not used external business advice services in the past but that have the desire to expand and grow their business over the next two to three years. Using subsidies to stimulate the demand for advice and overcome the barriers preventing businesses from taking advice is one of the key areas we want to test in this programme. We will allocate a large portion of the budget for this programme to provide businesses with subsidies to cover up to 50% of the cost of obtaining external advice from suppliers in the private sector. The maximum value of these subsidies will be GBP 2 000. Range of Advice being Tested Our research tells us that there are five key topics which firms sometimes find difficult and need additional help and support. They are: 1. Help with raising finance to fund business activities; 2. Developing an effective marketing strategy to increase sales; 3. Exploiting the internet and digital technologies to improve business performance; 4. Increasing the capability of the management team by carrying out an audit on skills or reviewing current business strategies; 5. Expanding the workforce and taking on new employees. Initially, the Growth Voucher programme will focus on these five themes to test what impact they have on business performance. However, these may vary or be expanded over the lifetime of the programme. To deliver an effective programme that provides us with sufficient data on what really makes a difference to business growth, we will need to encourage a large number of businesses to participate in this programme. Overall, we are aiming to deliver support to at least 25,000 businesses through this programme by March 2015. Of the 25 000 businesses we help, we will need at least 10 000 of them to participate in the Randomised Controlled Trials. To achieve these levels of engagement, we propose to trial the Growth Voucher Programme in five geographical locations across England. The areas they will cover are as follows: 1. The North West covering Greater Manchester and the surrounding area, 2. The West Midlands, 3. East of England, 4. London, 5. South East. Contracts. Delivery Partner contracts in each of the five areas will be available as “Lots” numbered 1-5 that suppliers can bid for individually or collectively depending on their capability. There will be one further contract available, Lot 6, to act as a National Coordinator/ Administrator to process online applications and payments being received through the national website. Again, suppliers can bid for this contract separately or in addition to one or more of the regional Delivery Partner contracts. To participate in competitive tendering process for Growth Voucher Contracts potential bidders are required to pre-qualify. The pre-qualification process requires a submission in response to the Authoritys Request for Information (RFI) document. The RFI document can be obtained from the contact named in this Notice or on this Contract Finder notice.


title: Waste Management Services at HMP Full Sutton

description: Waste Management Services

postalCode: NP10 8FZ


title: The Provision of Bowls Hall Demolition and Landscaping Works

description: The Authority is looking for a demolition contractor to engage in the deconstruction, demolition and removal of the Indoor Bowls Hall (including pile caps) comprising, Services disconnections, Asbestos removal, Demolition works, Landscaping works. This will take place at Picketts Lock, Indoor Bowls Hall, Lee Valley Leisure Complex, 59 Meridian Way, London N9 0AR. The term of the Contract will be a 3 month period. If however the Authority so requires, it may, at it's discretion extend the Contract by a further period of time, and in such an event, the same Terms and Conditions will be applied.

Lee Valley Regional Park Authority

street: Myddelton House,Bulls Cross

postalCode: EN2 9HG


title: QE Personal Tool Kits 2 Contract

description: Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) – Military Equipment Tool Solutions (METS) wishes to appoint a suitable supplier who can provide 54 Fire Retardant Polyester tool containers containing 54 sets of specified tools to be used on the Queen Elizabeth Carrier Alliance. The tools shall be etched with NATO Stock Numbers (NSNs) prior to dispatch. Potential Providers will be expected to send in a Certificate of Conformance for each of the items requested along with their Tender Response, failure to do so will result in a Potential Provider’s Tender being deemed as non-compliant.

Government Procurement Service

street: 9th Floor The Capital,Old Hall Street

postalCode: L3 9PP


title: RM2632 - L0032; Business development support for Rehabilitation Social Action Fund grant recipients

description: On 12th July 2013, the Cabinet Office Centre for Social Action opened the Rehabilitation Social Action Fund for applications. More information about the Centre can be found at: www.gov.uk/centre-for-social-action. The Rehabilitation Social Action Fund will grant fund voluntary and community social enterprises (VCSEs) to scale up and improve their evidence of impact. Up to £3.5 million will be available and programmes can apply for grants of between £50,000 and £250,000. Through this contract, the Cabinet Office is looking to secure an organisation to help grant recipients to grow sustainably over the 18 month grant period (from October 2013 to end March 2015), appropriate to their size and expertise, by providing practical, applicable and tailored support to: • Develop robust business plans to scale up, • Build their business management skills, • Manage their implementation of the business plan, and • Build strategic and collaborative relationships and communicate effectively with stakeholders, funders and commissioners. Please see attached Specification for full description.

Government Procurement Service - London

street: 1 Horse Guards Road

postalCode: SW1A 2HQ


title: UK - Strenghtening Overseas Business Networks First Year Assessment

description: In November 2012 the PM announced a pilot campaign in 20 high growth and emerging markets to enhance the support for SMEs over the next 3-5 years. Following this announcement in April 2013 UKTI-FCO-BBC launched the “Strengthening the overseas business networks programme” that aimed to build the range and quality of B2B support on offer to UK business so that is at a minimum on par with that on offer by competitors. By December 2013, the majority of the pilot Chambers were making tangible progress towards building their core capabilities and strengthening their offer to SMEs. The aim of the research project herein advertised is to assess the emerging strengths and weaknesses of the programme that cannot be picked up by our regular reports (e.g. what’s working well, what’s not working that well and what could be improved).

UK Trade and Investment

street: Victoria 2 ,1 Victoria Street

postalCode: SW1H OET


description: The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has a requirement for a suitably competent and experienced contractor to undertake Fabric FMR (Forward Maintenance Register) works at selected MCA sites across their estate, throughout England and Wales. The extent of the works briefly comprise of the following – Undertake both internal and external fabric repair works, such as roofing repairs, insulation upgrades, refurbishment/ replacement of doors and windows, repairs/ replacement of ceiling and floor finishes, ironmongery repairs/ replacement, re-decorations, drainage works, fencing/ footpath/ access road repairs, garage door maintenance, etc. The works must be completed by 28th March 2014 (with an anticipated 15 week programme of work on sites). Work at some sites will need to be undertaken with the client in occupation (and therefore there will be a degree of out of hours working involved). The works will be notifiable under Part 3 of the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007. The works will be tendered as four separate packages (as detailed below) under a single stage selective tendering process and let under an NEC3 Short form Engineering Contract. Package 1 East region (north and east) – Tyneside to Thames Package 2 East region (south east) – Dover to Portland Package 3 West region (Wales and north west) – Chepstow to Liverpool Package 4 West region (south west) – Brixham to Bristol The estimated total contract value for the four packages is circa £350,000 excl VAT. Please submit your expressions of interest for any or all of the packages to Steve Fenner (PB Project Manager) at fennerst@pbworld.com Deadline for expressions of interest - 17:00 6th September 2013


title: Supply of Modular Building at HMYOI Northallerton

description: Supply of a modular building at HMYOI Northallerton


name: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

title: Identification of high risk sites for iodinated DBP formation

description: The aim of this project is to review existing data on iodide concentrations in environmental waters and to conduct monitoring for iodide at drinking water abstraction points to produce a more robust data set. This will aid the identification of any high iodide sources where the likelihood of iodinated disinfection by-product (DBP) formation is high.

street: Ergon House,Horseferry Road

postalCode: SW1P 2AL


title: Programme of external, 2-day reviews of E-ACT academies and free schools

description: PROGRAMME OF EXTERNAL, 2-DAY REVIEWS TO E-ACT ACADEMIES AND FREE SCHOOLS E-ACT intends to commission a centrally-managed and centrally-accountable programme of external reviews of each of its academies and free schools in the first half of each Autumn term, to evaluate each academy’s effectiveness in relation to the four key areas of the current Ofsted framework (2012). E-ACT requires a specialised programme of two-day on-site external reviews of each of its academies and free schools, to evaluate the academy’s effectiveness in relation to the following prime areas: • Pupils’ achievement; • Quality of teaching; • Leadership and management; • Behaviour and safety; • Overall effectiveness, including the promotion of SMSC; And in addition: • Quality of the academy’s provision in English and mathematics; and • Narrowing of the attainment gap. The contract is intended to start on 1 July 2013, with an initiation/expectations meeting for the successful bidder(s) and E-ACT to draw up the external review cycle and deployment in early-mid July 2013. The on-site work would take place between 1 September – 31st October 2013, with initial reports completed by 10th November 2013. The cycle will repeat, subject to contract and funding, from July 2014. We expect each call-off to cost in the region of £5000 to £40,000. This work is also advertised on our website at http://www.e-act.org.uk/work-for-us/programme-of-external-2-day-reviews-of-e-act-academies-and-free-schools/ . If you are interested in bidding for this work, please contact Dan Griffiths at Daniel.Griffiths@E-ACT.org.uk for further details.


title: Provision of Minor Works Projects to NOMS East Midlands Region Lot 2 M3

description: Provision of minor works projects to NOMS East Midlands estate lot 2 (m3)


title: HOP33 - Lift Contractor

description: The project comprises of Replacement of Lift HOP33 which services the Victoria Tower and the 12 floors of Parliamentary Archives including the replacement of lift car and lift mechanisms. The new lift should comply with all necessary legal requirements and act as an evacuation lift in the event of a fire to align with the Parliamentary Estates Directorate lift refurbishment programme. Requirements for a lift contractor to undertake the full refurbishment of Electric passenger lift contained within a Historic Grade 1 listed Building comprising of 12 floors, this will consist of all mechanical components, controls and lift mechanisms. Please express your interest via the House of Commons procurement portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home Please note your expressions of interest and response to the Pre Qualification Questionnaire to be received via our In-Tend procurement portal no later than 12 noon Friday 8 March 2013.

The House of Commons

street: Westminster

postalCode: SW1A 0PW


title: RM2214-SB215 Provision of Head Sets

description: 80 HW251N PLANTRONIS SUPRAPLUS MONARUAL 71 HW261N PLANTRONIS SUPRAPLUS BINARUAL 123 A10-11 PLANTRONICS BOTTOM CABLE The department will consider alternatives where the specification above is met. Please see attached document for full description.

Government Procurement Service

street: Room 2Y92 Concept House,Cardiff Road

postalCode: NP10 8QQ


name: The Food and Environment Research Agency

title: Laboratory Work Benching - manufacture, supply & fit

description: This is a tender for a subcontract package of works to provide laboratory benching as part of the overall project to provide a centralised mass spectrometer facility at Fera. Due to programme constraints the order will be placed by the client (Fera) prior to the appointment of the Main Contractor for the project. This subcontract will be accepted by the Main Contractor following their appointment for the project overall but as if they have been involved from the outset. It is a strict condition of this contract that the subcontractor appointed for this benching supply contract will accept a subcontract with the Main Contractor on the terms set out on these documents, including the main contract tender package, and on no others. In addition, the subcontractor is required to agree with the Main Contractor all items necessary to allow the subcontract to be formed no later than one week after the Main Contractor is appointed. The requirements are shown on drawing B1723000/A/1007 P5 included as part of the enclosed Main Contract Tender Pack and comprise the following elements - ACOUSTIC UNIT/COMPRESSOR UNIT (REFERRED TO AS UNIT 1) FIXED SERVICE “SPINE” UNIT (REFERRED TO AS UNIT 2) FREE STANDING TRESPA BENCH/WORKTOP UNIT (REFFERED TO AS UNIT 3) SUSPENDED SLIDING UNDERBENCH UNIT (REFERRED TO AS UNIT 4) LABORATORY BENCHING AND FURNITURE FOR PREP LAB CHAIRS AND STOOLS Chairs and stools are not part of this contract and will be provided by the client, Fera.

street: Room 11F27, Estates ,Sand Hutton

postalCode: YO41 1LZ


title: Test Equipment for EPSRC Willenhall

description: Aston University is looking to procure test equipment for the EPSRC grant. Suppliers are invited to provide a quote and proposal against the attached quotation document.

Aston University

street: Central Procurement Team,Aston University,Aston Triangle

postalCode: B4 7ET


title: Copywriter Services

description: HSL are looking to obtain services of a copywriter to develop complex technical or Academic information into content to be featured in online and offline media. Writing to suit the style of target publications.

Health & Safety Laboratory

postalCode: SK17 9JN


title: Provision of Advice to Private Vets on SCOPS Principles

description: Four year sub-contractor contract to provide advice to private vets on the implementation of SCOPS principles and to Fera, where necessary, relating to parasitological techniques. Attendance at bi-annual SCOPS meetings not otherwise attended by Fera staff. SCOPS meetings minutes or summary report to be provided to Fera after each meeting.

street: Sand Hutton


title: Particle Size Analyzer

description: This contract is for a particle size analyzer. In order to support a Battery Material Scale-up Facility being set up at WMG a wet mix Particle Size Analyzer is required. This will be used for analysis of battery mixes and slurries to determine particle size attributes. Please refer to http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick for further information. You will be able to download the full 'Request for Quotation' document from this site. Any queries in relation to this requirement should be directed to the University of Warwick via the correspondence functionality of our e-tendering system. Failure to do so may result in queries being excluded from the procedure.

The University of Warwick

street: University House,University of Warwick,Kirby Corner Road

postalCode: CV4 8UW


title: Occupational Hygiene Services

description: The Environment Agency are seeking to award a framework for Occupational Hygiene Services. Our organisation needs to recognise, evaluate and control the physical, chemical and biological hazards that our employees are exposed to. These hazards include noise, vibration, and hazardous substances such as bio aerosols, dusts, fibres, fumes, solvents, gases and vapours. The outputs from occupational hygiene assessment and monitoring should inform a risk-based approach to pre-employment health screening, health surveillance and biological monitoring. Assessment and monitoring will also confirm the suitability of our COSHH assessments. Our employees are required to respond to environmental emergencies. These can fall under COMAH legislation or be minor spills, fly tipping and pollution incidents. An emergency situation is one which requires immediate action. The service should include information about workplace chemicals, biological and physical hazards as well as the appropriate control measures. The service could be provided by a 24/7 telephone advice line or by means of a site visit.

Environment Agency

street: Horizon House,Deanery Road

postalCode: BS1 5AH


title: Development of a U-Value measurement machine

description: Description of the contract For the UK to reach its carbon targets, the UK housing stock will need to significantly reduce its heat loss and improve its energy efficiency. The Green Deal is a new financing mechanism and a framework of advice, assurance and accreditation for the energy efficiency supply chain for homes and businesses. It allows the cost of installing energy efficiency measures to be financed through a charge attached to a property’s energy electricity meter. The ECO (Energy Company Obligation) obliges energy suppliers to promote or subsidise measures to reduce carbon emissions or reduce bills in the domestic sector. The Green Deal and ECO will drive the installation of energy efficiency improvements commonly referred to as ‘measures’. For insulation measures deployed under the Green Deal, there is a range of both costs and benefits, giving a corresponding range of cost-effectiveness. For lower cost measures such as cavity wall insulation, payback periods are well within the measure lifetime. As measures become more expensive, such as solid wall insulation, payback periods could be varied. It is proposed to develop a machine/tool to allow the Green Deal assessors to measure accurate values for heat loss in a household during the normal assessment procedure, allowing the owner to make informed decisions about cost-effectiveness of energy saving measures. With the short deadline for the development (March 20313) of this method, it is proposed to run a competition to quickly develop a machine, that is: • Accurate – u-value measurements to within ±0.05 W/m² K • Portable – should be easily carried by a Green Deal assessor and set-up quickly by a lone person. • Durable – the device will be used in site surveys /construction sites and should not be affected by the knocks and bangs it could receive during transportation and site work. • In operation the device should not mark or damage the wall or decoration in anyway • Quick – giving results in less <2hours, ideally <1hour • Cheap to manufacture – final retail price of £750 to £1,000 • Easy to use – display output being a u-value (no calculations for the assessor to do), minimal training required to get consistent accurate results. • Calibration - a procedure should be specified and record keeping suggested/logged • Compliant with all EU regulations (CE marking etc) It is proposed to develop the U-Value measurement machine for Green Deal assessors for the end of 2013. The U-Value measurement machine if successful will enable Green Deal assessors to give householders make informed decisions about cost-effectiveness of solid wall insulation. Please note DECC's Terms and Conditions Attached will apply to this contract.

street: Area 1C,3, Whitehall Place

postalCode: SW1A 2AW


title: GB-Leicester: Provision of Carriageway Improvements Works Contractor 2014

description: Leicester City Council wants to procure a suitable Works Contractor to carry out carriageway improvement works. The aim of the proposed work is to improve the following carriageways; O Coleman Road O Mansfield Street O Saffron Lane O Welford Road/Victoria Park Road Junction O Raw Dykes Road Three of the above schemes are definite; these are Coleman Road, Mansfield Street and Saffron Lane. The rest require final confirmation. The extent and description of the work that requires to be carried out at each site will is detailed in the contract document. In brief the activities/treatments are listed below. The improvement works are to be tendered to an outside Highways Contractor. The agreement will be based on the NEC3-ECSC (New Engineering Contracts _ Engineering Construction Short Contract). The Contractor will be paid based on the rates submitted at tender stage. All quantities will be re-measured before payment application is approved. The improvement works will include the following work/treatments: O Surveying, basically taking existing levels of the carriageway as well as the kerb line. O Crack and seat some sections of the carriageway (these will be indicated on a layout drawing). O Plane of the whole carriageway. 40mm at the kerb line to zero at the centre of the carriageway. O Install Geo-grid to prevent reflective cracking and add tensile strength to the carriageway O Overlay using super-flex bituminous material or any other with similar properties. O Realigning/adjusting levels of gullies, manholes and valves to match the new surface O The work will also include replacing defective manhole and gully covers as well as cleaning gullies. • The tenderer will take the responsibility of procuring sub-contractors (if there is a need) and managing traffic. The area to be covered under this work is approximately 11 635m2. It is anticipated that the improvement works will increase the life span of the carriageways by more than 12 years and this will be a once of procurement. The work should commerce on the last week of February 2014

Leicester City Council

street: B Block, New Walk Sentry,Welford Place

postalCode: LE1 6ZG


name: HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor

title: Statutory Adviser (Part time) in respect of the Thames Tunnel project

description: The DCLG Legal Advisers team (a division of the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is seeking applications from suitably qualified professionals with a detailed knowledge of the Planning Act 2008, in order to identify a candidate for appointment under section 101 of the Planning Act 2008 as a statutory legal adviser to the Examining authority for the Thames Tideway Tunnel application. This specialist appointment is part-time for the period Sept 2013 - June 2014, and possibly beyond that time..


title: Weed Control

description: The chemical control of weeds on all of Southampton's highways and a range of other footpaths and hardstandings. This is a tender for a 3 year contract plus 2 possible 12 month extensions. For further information and to apply for this tender please go to http://www.southampton.gov.uk/supplysouthampton. Tenders must be completed and submitted by no later than 12 noon on 18/4/2013 . Any clarification on the above requirements can be obtained via Bravo messaging.


title: Boiler Optimisation Technology in Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service estate

description: Reduction of energy consumption by improving operational efficiency of existing boilers and associated heating systems through the supply and install boiler optimisers (also known as dry-cycling retrofit devices) at pre-selected Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service (HFRS) fire stations and verify savings of fuel associated with the installations. Provide Hampshire County Council (HCC) and HFRS with survey reports describing the current state of controls and existing control strategies, possible control improvements, associated costs, savings and their influence on projected savings from boiler optimisers if the improvements to controls are carried out at a later stage.

Hampshire County Council

street: Castle Hill Offices,Romsey Road

postalCode: SO23 8UL


name: NHS West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit

title: Delivery of more effective care for people with Learning Difficulties

description: Sheffield CCG is looking to work with a consultant who will provide the following key Deliverables:- • A report mapping the barriers and potential solutions to providing the most effective primary care in Sheffield to this population. • Transferable guidance for primary care describing the complex economy of health and social care delivery and how GPs and Practice nurses fit within that economy, for example: Self Directed Support, Personal Budgets, Supported Living, in addition to older established but now moribund patterns of residential care. • Practical suggestions as to how practices can overcome common issues in delivering effective primary care and delivering on the Duty of Care – examples could be: - a) good practice approaches to making reasonable adjustments to the service offered in order to enable equity of access, b) directing GPs to helpful resource materials like www.easyhealth.org.uk, c) how to contribute to Health Action Plans and Hospital Passports.

street: South Yorkshire Office,722 Prince of Wales Road

postalCode: S9 4EU


title: P2130092 - Researcher Development Programme - MRC Unit The Gambia

description: The aim for the RD Programme is to enable early career researchers to develop as highly effective (1) producers of high-impact research outputs; (2) managers of their own and others research; and (3) developers of their own and others professions and careers. We aim to align the Unit Programme with the principles of the following: • The UK’s Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers • The RCUK Statement of Expectation for researcher development and with the Researcher Development • The UK’s Researcher Development Framework

UK Shared Business Services Ltd.

street: North Star House,North Star Avenue

postalCode: SN2 1FF


name: London Borough of Hounslow - Corporate Procurement Unit

title: Independent Individual and Group Advocacy Service for Children and Young People

description: The Council wishes to purchase an independent individual and group advocacy service for children and young people that is local, flexible and responsive for those using or wishing to use the department’s social care services. In so doing the aim of the service is to help ensure the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people to improve their life chances and to enhance the quality of services provided to them.

street: Civic Centre,Lampton Road

postalCode: TW3 4DN


title: Fire Risk Assessments

description: Provision of Fire Risk Assessments for all premises within the Norfolk Constabulary and Suffolk Constabulary policing areas. The estate comprises approximately 120 properties of varying age and size. The number of properties is subject to variation due to the Constabularies' downsizing programme.

Norfolk Constabulary

postalCode: NR18 0WW


title: GE-Paderborn/Sennelager: Purchase of gravel

description: Purchase of gravel (Schotter), 0-45mm

DE&S Commercial, DE&S

street: BFG Commercial, HQ 1 (UK) Armd Div,Wentworth Kaserne, Block E, Liststr.


title: Support to the Variable Message Format (VMF) Planning Tool

description: 1. The Situational Awareness Command & Control (SACC) DT is responsible for the procurement and in-service support of Aerospace Battle Management (ABM) and Data Link (DL) equipment and systems. 2. The SACC DT has a requirement for the In Service Support and Post Design Services for the data link VMF Planning Tool (PT). The VMF PT will be used by the Joint Data Link Management Organisation (JDLMO) located at RAF High Wycombe, to co-ordinate, design, and manage VMF networks. The tool comprises 4 standalone laptops hosting Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) operating systems and bespoke software for which the MOD owns the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The purchase and maintenance of hardware is not required as part of this contract. 3. The VMF PT supports the VMF network design process. The tool achieves this by integrating pre-existing platform VMF communication system characteristics (provided to the JDLMO) with the required network characteristics to calculate optimal VMF network parameter settings for VMF network participants. The tool’s output is in the form of an XML Schema Document. 4. Activities required to be undertaken include, but are not limited to, general project administration, software support (knowledge of SQL database and Microsoft .net framework), technical support and advice, training, configuration management, security maintenance including production of Risk Management Accreditation Document Set (RMADS). Knowledge and understanding of MIL-STD-6017, MIL-STD-2045-47001, and MIL-STD-188-220 is required. 5. The Contractor would be required to travel to Military venues in the UK and attend meetings relating to Data Links at Abbey Wood and possibly abroad (normally one meeting per annum in the US). The Contractor must hold a Security Clearance (SC) and be a British National for International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) reasons.


title: Large scale digital exhibit MMC [Cel_A_02]

description:
The project is to deliver 1 large scale exhibit for the Making Modern Communications Gallery at the science museum:

 Cel_A_02 : The race to build a network

 Please see Invitation to tender document for full details

 (MT Ref:99637)

Science Museum Group

street: Science Museum,Exhibition Road

postalCode: SW7 2DD


title: Supply Chain Analysis in the UK Construction Sector

description: In September 2012, Vince Cable, the secretary of state for Business, Skills and Innovation, outlined a vision for a new industrial strategy . It would be about looking to the future, to setting out a long-term, whole of Government approach to how government supports business and aligning activity to deliver it. This will give confidence now for investment and growth. As part of developing the strategy, new strategic partnerships will be developed with industry to: • be long-term in focus: developing a vision for the sector and what needs to happen from both government and business to get there. • be co-created with industry: committing both business and government to specific actions to maintain and develop long-term capabilities. • take a whole of government approach: looking across all Government to identify barriers and levers which have the biggest impacts and align these to deliver growth. • engage across the sector landscape: working with and identifying actions which benefit business across the whole supply chain whether they are large, medium or small. Developing and delivering the industry strategy is a key priority for BIS and construction is one of the key enabling sectors receiving a specific sector strategy in 2013. As part of the research and analysis underpinning the strategy, BIS is looking to address acknowledged evidence gaps in the sector. Conversations with business stakeholders and trade associations suggest that there may be scope for cost savings and productivity gains from improved engagement between contractors and their suppliers in the construction supply chain (see Figure 1). Whilst construction contractors regularly engage with their own supply chains, empirical analysis of value created at different levels of construction supply chains in the UK is limited and tends to be anecdotal. As a result knowledge of the sticking points, bottle necks and potential efficiencies in construction supply chains is not as developed as it could be. This document outlines an invitation to tender for an ambitious and innovative piece of research which will take a small sample of construction projects, track the cost back through their supply chains, interview contractors and suppliers to identify scope for cost savings and recommend action to overcome barriers to those savings. In this way, we hope to pull out lessons for industry and Government on how to improve the engagement between suppliers so the industry can be more productive and competitive.

Business, Innovation and Skills

street: 2 St Paul's Place,125 Norfolk Street

postalCode: S1 2FJ


title: Animal Welfare Grant holders Workshop

description: Venue for Animal Welfare Grant holders Workshop


title: Internal Web Portal

description: Using current web-based technologies together with user-friendly and effective design, E-ACT's stakeholders are to be provided with access to more information, useful reference and contact tools and a clear consistent channel for communications to and from E-ACT's Academies.

E-ACT

street: 3rd Floor,10 Whitfield Street

postalCode: W1T 2RE


title: Anaesthetic/EBME consumables

description:
Competition Title : Anaesthetic/EBME consumables
 Competition Notes : Pease provide a quotation for the products listed, prices to remain fixed for 2 years and we expect carriage to be free of charge, please indicate if this is not possible; quantities are approximate p.a. NHS terms and conditions apply, copy attached.

 For full details, see how to apply below.

street: 2 Douglas Court,Anchorage Avenue,Shrewsbury Business Park

postalCode: SY3 8XQ