Managed Stores Service and Associated Goods

Leicester City Council invites Tenders for the provision of a Managed Stores Service and Associated Goods. The service will entail a managed and maintained service for the provision of materials, goods and associated service with at least one stores facility within the boundaries of the city of Leicester, predominantly servicing the Council's Housing and Highways operations. However, the contract will be available to all Council departments, including Parks, Estates and Building Services and others.

The main objective of this contract is to achieve financial savings to the Council due to economies of scale, better efficiency of service and other factors as proposed by the external Supplier.

It is anticipated that 24 LCC staff will be eligible to transfer to the successful supplier under TUPE.

The proposed Contract will be for seven years with an option to extend for a period or periods totalling to more than a further three years and it is anticipated to be awarded to a single Supplier. It is the Authority's view that TUPE will apply in respect of this Contract.

***BIDDERS' INFORMATION DAY***

All interested Suppliers are invited to attend an Information Day which will be held on 3rd of March 2017. Please book via e-tendering portal to receive further details.

For the purpose of this tender, a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CPN) will be used. This means that shortlisted Suppliers will be invited to submit initial tenders.

The Authority may negotiate with tenderers the initial and all subsequent tenders submitted, except for the final tender, to improve their content. The minimum requirements and the award criteria shall not be subject to negotiation.

This is a Pre-Qualification stage and only shortlisted bidders will be invited to tenders.

A full tender pack with the appendices and all other documentation sets out details of the Authority's requirements and how to submit your Tender.

In order to access the full documentation, please click on the link below and you will be transferred to DueNorth e-tendering portal.

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The deadline for submitting Pre-Qualification responses to this opportunity is 12:00hours (noon) Monday, 20th March 2017. Only on-time submissions via e-tendering portal will be accepted.

Organisations are advised that any updates in relation to this opportunity will be published via the e-tendering portal.

Any advertised opportunity might be updated or removed at short notice due to unforeseen circumstances.