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Sworders Field Children's Playground Inclusive Play Unit

Description: Bishop's Stortford Town Council is seeking a contractor to fully manage the supply/installation of one large inclusive Play Unit to include a half pipe slide with pull ropes, low climbing ropes, slide, sensory boards and a small wheelchair ramp. The surface area is approximately 10 metres by 10 metres). Location Sworders Field Bishop's Stortford (Grid Reference 51.87065497072775, 0.16394403221897852). Further information can be found in the tender documents.

Summary: Bishop’s Stortford Town Council is seeking a contractor to supply and install one large inclusive children’s play unit at Sworders Field in Bishop’s Stortford. The equipment must include a half-pipe slide with pull ropes, low climbing ropes, a slide, sensory boards and a small wheelchair ramp. The approximate play surface area is 10 metres by 10 metres. This is a playground equipment supply and installation project, intended to provide accessible play opportunities for children. The contractor is expected to manage both supply and installation. The delivery location is Sworders Field, Bishop’s Stortford.

WHC - Electrical Installation and Condition Report and Remedial works

Description: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council) is conducting a Competitive Flexible Procedure procurement in accordance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 for the purpose of procuring Electrical Installation and Condition Report and Remedial works. The contract is to ensure the council domestic housing stock of 8500 properties are kept fully compliant, that they have all been inspected by an electrician and have a current electrical safety certificate. The contractor will carry out all remedial electrical repairs, ensure all fire and heat alarms and carbon monoxide are maintained, and each property meets with LD2 Building regulations guidance. This work will include rewiring properties dependant on their condition. The contractor will be responsible for all customer contact including supporting engaging with hard to access (read more...)

Summary: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council is seeking electrical inspection, certification and remedial works for its 8,500 domestic properties. The contractor must inspect each home and ensure it has a current electrical safety certificate, carry out repairs and, where property condition requires, rewiring, and maintain fire, heat and carbon monoxide alarms. Properties must meet LD2 building regulations guidance. The work also includes contacting residents, securing access to hard-to-reach homes, documenting cases where residents do not cooperate, and supplying property data, certificates and photographs so the council can maintain its asset records and evidence inspections, condition and completed works. Delivery is across the council’s domestic housing stock in Welwyn Hatfield.

Supply of Key Safes

Description: North Hertfordshire District Council is seeking quotations for the supply of key safes (one make/model to be offered) This project will involve the supply of secure externally mounted key safes to support the delivery of the Hertfordshire Careline assistive technology service. The contract will provide for the manufacture, supply and delivery of key safes, that meet defined operational, security, usability and durability requirements, as detailed in Schedule 2: Specification of the Procurement documents.

Summary: North Hertfordshire District Council is buying externally mounted secure key safes to support the Hertfordshire Careline assistive technology service. The requirement covers their manufacture, supply and delivery, and bidders must offer one make and model. The safes need to meet the Council’s operational, security, usability and durability requirements. This is a goods contract for safes and related locks and keys. Delivery is to Hertfordshire; the Council is based in Letchworth Garden City. The products are intended for use in delivering a careline service, so the opportunity is relevant to manufacturers and suppliers able to provide suitable externally mounted key safes and arrange delivery to the service area.

Hotel and other nightly paid accommodation for use as emergency accommodation for homeless households

Description: North Hertfordshire District Council is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement in relation to a proposed two-year, non-exclusive, multi-supplier arrangement for nightly-paid emergency and temporary accommodation for homeless households. Demand is variable and placements may be required on the same day or outside normal working hours. The current planning assumption is approximately PS250,000 aggregate expenditure per year for two years, with no guaranteed volume or spend for any supplier. This exercise is not a tender and responses will not be scored or used to pre-qualify suppliers. The Council is seeking practical feedback to inform the final specification, pricing mechanism, contractual terms and booking process. All responses must be submitted via the Council's e-tendering portal, 'In-Tend,' accessible at https://supplier.in-tend.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/home. For technical assistance, contact the In-Tend Helpdesk at 0845 557 8079 or (read more...)

Summary: North Hertfordshire District Council is planning to buy hotel and other short-stay accommodation for homeless households needing emergency or temporary housing. The service would arrange nightly-paid placements, with demand that can vary and bookings potentially needed at short notice, including the same day and outside normal working hours. Accommodation may include hotels, bed-and-breakfast establishments and furnished short-stay properties. The service is intended to provide accommodation when households need an urgent placement. Delivery is for households supported by the Council in North Hertfordshire. The Council is seeking market input on the accommodation types and geographical coverage that suppliers could offer, household requirements, booking arrangements and how placements currently operate. It proposes using several providers rather than relying on one supplier.

The appointment of Internal Auditors

Description: First Garden Cities Homes (FGCH), a Registered Provider of Social Housing based in Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, intends to appoint a firm to act as its outsourced internal audit function from 1 April 2027. The current contract reaches its natural end on 31/03/2027. The appointed firm will report to FGCH's Audit & Risk Committee and provide independent, objective assurance over governance, risk management and internal control. The services include a risk-based strategic and annual internal audit plan, delivery of the agreed programme of reviews, follow-up of agreed actions through a recommendation tracker, attendance at Audit & Risk Committee meetings as required, support to counter-fraud arrangements, and an annual internal audit opinion timed to inform the Board's annual assurance to the Regulator of Social Housing. (read more...)

Summary: First Garden Cities Homes intends to appoint an outsourced internal audit provider for its social housing organisation, which is based in Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The provider will give independent assurance on governance, risk management and internal controls. Work includes developing a risk-based strategic and annual audit plan, carrying out agreed reviews, tracking follow-up actions, supporting counter-fraud arrangements and attending Audit & Risk Committee meetings when required. The provider will also give an annual internal audit opinion to inform the Board’s assurance to the Regulator of Social Housing. The service is delivered to First Garden Cities Homes in Hertfordshire and must produce an integrated view of the organisation’s assurance framework.

Media Buying

Description: To appoint a supplier or suppliers to provide paid media (digital and offline advertising) services to Affinity Water. Affinity Water is seeking a strategic paid media supplier(s) to develop, plan, activate, optimise and evaluate an ongoing programme supporting Keep Life Flowing and our wider water saving and behaviour change activity. The programme must run throughout the year, supporting annual water reduction targets that reset on 1 April 2027. Activity must be ready to launch from April 2027, ahead of potential early heatwaves and increases in demand. The supplier(s) should be able to provide all services including but not limited to: - Paid media strategy, - Insight, analytics and optimisation, - Media and channel planning, - Media buying, - TV, - Radio, - Performance digital, - Social media buying.

Summary: Affinity Water Limited is seeking a supplier or suppliers for paid media and advertising services to support its “Keep Life Flowing” campaign and wider water-saving and behaviour-change work. The scope covers strategy, audience insight and analytics, optimisation, media and channel planning, media buying, television, radio, performance digital and social media buying. The programme is intended to run throughout the year and support the water company’s water-reduction targets. Services will cover areas across England, including the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, the Midlands, East of England, London, the South East and the South West. This is an advertising and marketing services requirement (CPV 79340000).

Flow Regulators (Device Only)

Description: To appoint a supplier or suppliers to provide flow regulators in agreed specifications, sizes and flow rates to Affinity Water. The procurement will support AMP8 objectives relating to demand reduction, PCC reduction, water resource management, leakage reduction, sustainable network operation, and improved asset efficiency.

Summary: Affinity Water is seeking suppliers to provide flow regulators to agreed specifications, sizes and flow rates. These are control valves used in water networks. The requirement supports the company’s plans for reducing water demand and per-person consumption, managing water resources, reducing leakage, operating its network sustainably and improving asset efficiency. Delivery is across northern, central and southern England, covering areas from the North East and North West through the Midlands and East of England to London, the South East and South West. This is a goods procurement for the devices themselves; no installation or related service is described.

Flow Regulators (Device Only)

Description: To appoint a supplier or suppliers to provide flow regulators in agreed specifications, sizes and flow rates to Affinity Water. The procurement will support AMP8 objectives relating to demand reduction, PCC reduction, water resource management, leakage reduction, sustainable network operation, and improved asset efficiency.

Summary: Affinity Water is seeking suppliers to provide flow regulators to agreed specifications, sizes and flow rates. These are control valves used in water networks. The requirement supports the company’s plans for reducing water demand and per-person consumption, managing water resources, reducing leakage, operating its network sustainably and improving asset efficiency. Delivery is across northern, central and southern England, covering areas from the North East and North West through the Midlands and East of England to London, the South East and South West. This is a goods procurement for the devices themselves; no installation or related service is described.

HPFT - Social Care in the Community

Description: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is currently developing a new 'Support in the Community Framework' for the provision of community-based support and homecare services for adults with mental health needs. This will be a competitive procurement process, delivered in line with the Procurement Act 2023, and will introduce a structured framework with defined service levels, geographical lots and agreed rates to support a sustainable, high-quality provider market across Hertfordshire. HPFT anticipate the duration of the framework to be for 8 years and will be re-opened every 2 years, with optional 1 year extensions. This tender is being run via the Atamis portal: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome *Suppliers should register on the portal if not already registered. *To express an interest in this preliminary market engagement, search and select contract (read more...)

Summary: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is buying community-based support and homecare services for adults with mental health needs across Hertfordshire. The procurement establishes a framework with defined service levels, geographical areas and agreed rates, intended to support a sustainable provider market and deliver care around individuals’ assessed needs and desired outcomes. Work is divided across South East Herts, South West Herts, North West Herts, and North & Central Herts. Framework providers will respond to referrals for the relevant area and service type, setting out their proposed support and capacity so that suitable options can be presented to the service user. The person receiving support, with a representative where appropriate, will be supported to choose between providers able to meet the requirements. The Trust will award each call-off to the selected suitable provider, subject to confirmation and documentation.

Hotel and other nightly paid accommodation for use as emergency accommodation for homeless households

Description: North Hertfordshire District Council is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement in relation to a proposed two-year, non-exclusive, multi-supplier arrangement for nightly-paid emergency and temporary accommodation for homeless households. Demand is variable and placements may be required on the same day or outside normal working hours. The current planning assumption is approximately PS250,000 aggregate expenditure per year for two years, with no guaranteed volume or spend for any supplier. This exercise is not a tender and responses will not be scored or used to pre-qualify suppliers. The Council is seeking practical feedback to inform the final specification, pricing mechanism, contractual terms and booking process. All responses must be submitted via the Council's e-tendering portal, 'In-Tend,' accessible at https://supplier.in-tend.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/home. For technical assistance, contact the In-Tend Helpdesk at 0845 557 8079 or (read more...)

Summary: North Hertfordshire District Council is planning to buy hotel and other short-stay accommodation for homeless households needing emergency or temporary housing. The service would arrange nightly-paid placements, with demand that can vary and bookings potentially needed at short notice, including the same day and outside normal working hours. Accommodation may include hotels, bed-and-breakfast establishments and furnished short-stay properties. The service is intended to provide accommodation when households need an urgent placement. Delivery is for households supported by the Council in North Hertfordshire. The Council is seeking market input on the accommodation types and geographical coverage that suppliers could offer, household requirements, booking arrangements and how placements currently operate. It proposes using several providers rather than relying on one supplier.