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title: "Health & Safety Programme - Quality Assurance"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-05078e"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL"
published: "2025-04-25"
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# Health & Safety Programme - Quality Assurance

Buyer: WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05078e

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## Summary

Westminster City Council is in the planning stage of a procurement process titled "Health & Safety Programme - Quality Assurance," aimed at ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and HSE guidelines. The council is looking to hire a qualified consultant to oversee the quality assurance of health and safety surveys and assessments conducted by its contractors. The procurement falls under the services category and will take place in the United Kingdom, with a gross contract value of £600,000. Key dates include the scheduled engagement milestone on 9th May 2025 and a future notice date by 1st August 2025. The contract period is set from 6th October 2025 to 5th October 2027, with a potential extension up to 2029.

This tender creates substantial opportunities for businesses specialising in quality assurance and system assessment services, particularly those with expertise in health and safety compliance. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) may find this opportunity especially beneficial given its suitability criteria. Companies offering competent surveyors, assessors, and supervisors are well-positioned to compete, as the role involves reviewing contractor performance and ensuring adherence to UKAS procedures and WCC's specific requirements. The procedure being above the threshold suggests a competitive environment, providing growth potential through an association with a high-profile public authority like Westminster City Council.

## Notice

Westminster City Council (WCC) wish to secure the services of a suitably qualified consultant to quality assure Health and Safety related surveys, assessments, and projects carried out by WCC's fixed term contractors to meet the statutory requirements by means of quality assurance on the Council's Shine system. The objective is the assisting and monitoring of the contractor to ensure that they provide dedicated, competent, and experienced surveyors, assessors, and supervisors to work on behalf of client WCC. The role of consultant is to review the assessments and surveys to assist in monitoring the performance of the contractor's surveyor to ensure compliance with Contractors own UKAS procedures, any specific WCC expectations and requirements and HSE regulations and guidance e.g.: HSG264 requirements.

### Planning Information

no further events post this engagement

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016998-2025 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Apr 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 1 Aug 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 5 Oct 2025 - 5 Oct 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £500,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planning |
| Lots status | Planning |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1E 6QP |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72224200 - System quality assurance planning services
- 72225000 - System quality assurance assessment and review services

## Release History

- 25 Apr 2025 at 11:16 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016998-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016998-2025
  25th April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.westminster.gov.uk/

## Provenance

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