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The City of Liverpool College

The City of Liverpool College Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) Marketing and Communications

Business ServicesCPV 79342000
Value£150k
Deadline31 Jul 2027
Published26 Nov 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 26 Nov 2025327 days leftCloses 31 Jul 2027
Who to contact
Tina Smith
tina.smith@liv-coll.ac.uk
+44 1512523243

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£150ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

The City of Liverpool College publishes Business Services work continuously — 30 notices, roughly one every 76 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

The City of Liverpool College intend to create a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for our Marketing provision over 4 x separate lots.

Suppliers who are awarded a place on the DPS will be invited to participate in a further mini-competition for each of the 4 x lots.The DPS will be in place until such time as the College no longer requires it or it is replace by a revised DPS.

All communications with The City of Liverpool College should be carried out using the correspondence section of the In-Tend Portal.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

All communications with The City of Liverpool

All communications with The City of Liverpool College should be carried out using the correspondence section of the In-Tend Portal.

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
The City of Liverpool College Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) Marketing and Communications

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

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m 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

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • 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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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e95a
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
077312-2025
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