Procurement Consultancy Support - AWARD
Reading Borough CouncilEstimated Value
Up to £300,000
Deadline
4 October 2017
Published
8 March 2018
Type
services
Overview
The Council is looking for expert help to support its procurement function and the achievement of significant savings on its spend with third party suppliers. This procurement is a further competition under lot 10 of the ESPO framework agreement 664-17 Consultancy Services. Whist the prime focus of the brief is to support more effective procurement and commissioning activity across the Council, it is anticipated that the successful contractor will need to provide access to a wide range of subject matter expertise covering a number of the specialist lots within the framework agreement.
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Reading Borough CouncilKey Dates
Published
8 March 2018
Submission deadline
4 October 2017
Notice type
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