Awarded contract

Graduation Services

Details

Value
£594,114.2
Duration
5 years
Topic
Event services
Published
24 April 2024

Tender description

The University events team deliver two sets of graduation ceremonies each year, one in the traditional summer period in the third week of July which is held at The Lowry Theatre, MediaCityUK and a winter graduation event in early December, currently held at the University on our Peel Park Campus. At our Summer Graduation event there are approximately 3800 students in attendance, and our Winter Graduation event there are approximately 1500 students. The University also has a small number of overseas partners who host in-country ceremonies. At present there are two suppliers one for the gowning and one for photography. To streamline the service and provide a simple, easy, and high-quality offer for students and their guests, the University is now inviting sufficiently experienced and qualified suppliers to tender for a package delivering both of these products/services. The appointed supplier will be required to provide gowning and a photography service for students and their guests as well as gowns for our Vice-Chancellor's executive team, academics, and staff volunteers at both graduation periods each year For full tender information and to express an interest please visit our InTend portal via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/salford/aspx/Home.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published24 April 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 August 2024
  3. Next: Contract expiry date1 August 2029in 3 years

About the buyer

University of Salford is a higher education institution in Salford, running a formal, structured procurement process across its schools and services. Open competitive tenders are advertised through the university's InTend portal and on Contracts Finder. Commodity purchases run through consortium frameworks such as the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium. Formal routes to market include RFQs, invitations to tender and structured supplier onboarding. Every tender carries minimum scoring for social value, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion. Suppliers onboarded this way invoice against a university-issued purchase order under its no purchase order, no pay policy.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Salford's contract awards have been in software and information systems, construction work and education and training.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 79952000 · Event services

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