Commissioning and Procurement

 

CITY.COMM SUPPORT

Our Organisation Development Officer can help you to develop your organisation to compete for contracts. Email Emma Plouviez or telephone 020 7723 1216.

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION

The City of London Corporation provides details of its tenders and contracts online through the London Tenders portal. All Third Sector organisations should register to tender/quote for City of London contracts. As a bonus, opportunities in other boroughs will be available. Click here to register with the London Tenders portal.

View the City of London's Procurement Strategy, details about the Local Procurement Project and the City's Procurement Process.

The Local Procurement  Project team has developed its own internal supplier database to assist City of London staff in their procurement  activities. To support the aim of the Local Procurement  Project, the database highlights suppliers based in the project’s target local boroughs (but also includes other suppliers outside these areas). The supplier database supplements existing methods of sourcing suppliers.To add your details to the Supplier Database, please email localprocurement@cityoflondon.gov.uk.

FUNDING CENTRAL

Register with Funding Central, free of charge, to receive updates on contracts that are being advertised nationally, regionally and locally.

CONTRACTS FINDER

Register with Contractsfinder, a free service for organisations, businesses, government buyers and the public. This service comes from Government under its transparency commitment. It includes:

  • live contract opportunities
  • closed tender documentation
  • contract awards and contract documents

THE BASICS - CITY.COMM SUPPORT - CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION - FUNDING CENTRAL 

THE BASICS

Commissioning involves the assessment of people's needs in a specific geographical area (or borough), the design of services and the agreement of a contract with a third party to secure the delivery of these services. Service users, communities and voluntary and community organisations often have the knowledge, skills and ability to design and run good quality services.

Procurement is the process of buying services. Like a job application, service contracts are advertised and applications are invited. Bids from potential service providers will then be scrutinized and evaluated.

Increasingly, the voluntary and community sector is being encouraged to bid for contracts to deliver public services. If you are new to this way of working, we recommend the publication Pathways through the maze - a guide to procurement law, commissioned by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA)

Download Pathways through the maze - a guide to procurement law

Download Public Sector Commissioning for Beginners, a workshop presentation from our 3 December 2009 Funding Conference.