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Published 22 May 2025, 10:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Event Services and Equipment Hire (Flexible Purchasing System)

Official notice

Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesLight touch regime

Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Delivery location not published

Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender

Tender notice expected 1 Sept 2025from the planned procurement notice

Framework period 8 yrsends 31 Dec 2033 · starts 31 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement 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 £2million per annum, basing this FPS as having an 8 year cycle at present.

CPV: Event services

How this framework works

From the published notice

Framework period: 8 yrs from 31 Dec 2025

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Planned 8 yrs

Contract period: 31 Dec 2025 – 31 Dec 2033 (8 yrs)

79952000 Event services

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more

What this means for your bid

“Event Services and Equipment Hire (Flexible Purchasing System)” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Legal basis: UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category: Services
Notice status: Past planning notice
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Light touch regime
Commercial structure: Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement: Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type: Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 22 May 2025, 10:45 BST
Last source update: 22 May 2025, 10:45 BST
Authority reference: PR506
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-024579
Latest notice: Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV): Event services
Delivery area: Not published
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-051cf3 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice

Appointment period ends: —

Timeline

22 May 2025 → 31 Dec 2025 · 3 dates

Planning notice published
22 May 2025, 10:45 BST
Tender notice expected
1 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
Contract starts302 days ago
31 Dec 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

Pipeline notice published
22 May 2025, 10:45 BST
UK1

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice

Awards (0): No award published
Contracts (0): No contract published
Bid statistics: No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Liverpool City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRVY-7813-WLPG Cunard Building, Liverpool, North West, L3 1DSContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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