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SOL - LDC Stores Procurement DPS

ChemicalsCPV 31680000

Value£1.4m

Deadline1 Aug 2028

Published28 Jun 2023

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 28 Jun 2023699 days leftCloses 1 Aug 2028

Who to contact

procteam@solihull.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£1.4mtotal contract value

median £94k

this tender£0£2.3m

This is a large award for Electrical Machinery & Apparatus — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,617 valued Electrical Machinery & Apparatus tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Lyndon Distribution Centre (LDC) Stores is a stores and logistics function managed by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) serving primary, secondary and academy schools in the Borough of Solihull, as well as, several council departments, with a variety of products to include but not limited to disposable, cleaning, janitorial products, clothing, and PPE, electrical and first aid products.

The stores are a small warehouse facility in Fordbridge, Solihull and provide a delivery service to its internal and external customers on a weekly basis.

Its external customers include schools in Birmingham and Walsall as well as Parish Councils in neighbouring areas.

There are approximately 3,000 product lines held in stock.As part of a review of its internal procurement process and an earlier market engagement, LDC Stores is looking now to proceed with set up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) which be a flexible framework of approved suppliers that will be able to bid, quote, or tender f

Requirements

What the notice asks for

The stores are a small warehouse facility

The stores are a small warehouse facility in Fordbridge, Solihull and provide a delivery service to its internal and external customers on a weekly basis.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market

…ines held in stock.As part of a review of its internal procurement process and an earlier market engagement, LDC Stores is looking now to proceed with set up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) which be a flexible framework of approved suppliers that will be able to bid, quote, or tender f…

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

25–40 daysof bid-team effort

£17.1k–£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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