East Suffolk Digital High Streets

East Suffolk Council have been awarded funding through the Welcome Back Fund to support the safe return to high streets and help build back better from the pandemic. This funding builds on the Reopening High Streets Safely Fund announced in May 2020 and forms part of the wider support government is providing to communities and businesses.

As part of a wider programme of building back better projects that East Suffolk Council will be running between July 2021 and March 2022, we are seeking to appoint an e-commerce provider to establish a virtual high street platform primarily for independent businesses in the 12 main towns in the district.

The platform will seek to offer the consumer a one-stop shop window of businesses offering on-line products and services from across the district. It will enable them to purchase from a number of businesses and receive a prompt coordinated home delivery or click and collect option.

Additional information:

All communications and bids must be managed through the In-tend e-sourcing Suite. Any communication outside of the In-tend system, without express permission of the Authority, will be immediately rejected in accordance with the Authority's contract regulations.

If there is any confusion about the opportunity, please seek clarification via the In-tend clarification process. Unless identified as a commercially sensitive question responses to questions will be published to all tenderers.

If you encounter any problems with the submission of your tender, please contact support@in-tend.com or phone 0845 557 8079 / +44 (0) 114 407 006

In an emergency (where In-tend is not available only) please contact procurement@eastsuffolk.gov.uk

After reading through this document please look at Part B- Response Pack. Make sure you complete all mandatory fields and that you sign the form at the end, ideally with an electronic signature, but if not possible handwritten is acceptable.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No