Notice Information
Notice Title
Event Services and Equipment Hire (Flexible Purchasing System)
Notice Description
Culture Liverpool delivers the Major Outdoor events and Cultural programme for Liverpool City Council and is seeking permission to commence procurement processes for a new flexible purchasing system (FPS) for infrastructure and suppliers for Culture Liverpool, in order to provisionally secure all of the key infrastructure required to deliver the Events programme, as identified in the planning stages. This is not a financial commitment to procure but a request to put the mechanism in place (FPS), so when budgets are confirmed year on year, the Culture team can then procure the required infrastructure. This would be an FPS for the next 8 years. The value of the contract is based on an average spend of PS2million per annum, basing this FPS as having an 8 year cycle at present.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-051cf3
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024579-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK1 - Pipeline Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79952000 - Event services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 22 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 1 Sep 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 31 Dec 2025 - 31 Dec 2033 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- commercialprocurement@liverpool.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LIVERPOOL
- Postcode
- L3 1DS
- Post Town
- Liverpool
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD7 Merseyside
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD72 Liverpool
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Liverpool
- Electoral Ward
- Waterfront South
- Westminster Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024579-2025
22nd May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
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