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Sports and Leisure Management Limited Outsourced Services
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £63,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Mon 7 Jul 2025A deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Mon 7 Jul 2025, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 8 Jul 2025
- Region
- London
02/ The brief
What the notice says
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Watford Borough Council intends to enter a deed of variation with Sports and Leisure Management Limited (the Contractor) as the outsourced provider of leisure management services. SLM acts as the principle in providing leisure services from the council owned premises at Woodside, Central and the paddling pool at Cassiobury Park. SLM will act as agent of the council, with SLM providing leisure services on behalf of the council in the council's name. The Underlying Contract was originally procured under Procurement Notice Watford Sports facilities operation services 2017/S 049-089978:, published on 10th March 2017. The opportunity to change the status, follows the successful litigation taken by Chelmsford City Council in 2022 and subsequently HMRC revised its guidance in 2023 in relation to the VAT treatment of leisure services provided by local authorities.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 98330000
- 98000000 98300000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 8 Jul 2025Contract notice
Contract notice published 8 July 2025.
Release 05996ce6-a4cd-4dba-bd29-92bdeede351b
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05/ Limits
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- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- 05996ce6-a4cd-4dba-bd29-92bdeede351b
- Source
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- Stage
- contract · Contract
- Last verified
- Sun 5 Apr 2026, 16:25 BST
- Read at
- Thu 22 Oct 2026, 19:56 BST
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