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Published 25 Apr 2025, 12:16 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Health & Safety Programme - Quality Assurance

Official notice

Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Aug 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 5 Oct 2027 · up to 5 Oct 2029 with extensions · starts 6 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

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.

CPV: System quality assurance assessment and review services · System quality assurance planning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 6 Oct 2025 – 5 Oct 2027 (2 yrs) · up to 5 Oct 2029 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
25 Apr 2025, 12:16 BST
Last source update
25 Apr 2025, 12:16 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-016998
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
System quality assurance assessment and review servicesSystem quality assurance planning services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05078e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

25 Apr 2025 → 6 Oct 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    25 Apr 2025, 12:16 BST
  2. Market engagement
    9 May 2025, 23:59 BST

    no further events post this engagement

  3. Tender notice expected
    1 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts386 days ago
    6 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    25 Apr 2025, 12:16 BST
    UK2

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

Westminster City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJVD-6261-BPPJ 64 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1E 6QPContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure