Stale Pre-tender

Meet the Buyer National 2025

Details

Buyer: Dumfries and Galloway Council
Value: £12,345
Topic: Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
Published: 27 May 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The 16th Annual Meet the Buyer National will take place on Wednesday 4 June 2025 at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. Join us to discuss contract opportunities with buyers from Scottish Local Authorities, Government Agencies, key contractors, and business support organisations. Attending Meet the Buyer National is a great way to find how you could join the public supply chain, to win a share of the 16GBP billion that the Scottish public sector spends annually on goods, works and services. Meet the Buyer National is the largest free procurement event in Scotland. Don’t miss this opportunity to raise your profile as a business and learn how to prepare for upcoming contract opportunities. The event is FREE to attend and open to all, but places are limited. Register now: https://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events-mtb25/ Lot 1: Meet The Buyer 2025 Now in its 16th year, Scotland’s National Meet the Buyer event will take place on Wednesday 4 June 2025, from 9:30am to 3:30pm. This free event is hosted by the Supplier Development Programme and partnered by Scottish Government and Scotland Excel. Come along to meet with procurement teams, buyers and supply chain partners. Meet the Buyer is the place to discuss projects and tender opportunities, on a local and national scale, across Scotland and the UK. Attending Meet the Buyer National is a great way to find how you could join the public supply chain, to win a share of the 16GBP billion that the Scottish public sector spends annually on goods, works and services. Meet the Buyer National is the largest free procurement event in Scotland. Don’t miss this opportunity to raise your profile as a business and learn how to prepare for upcoming contract opportunities. Meet the Buyer National is aimed towards helping Small Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) from across Scotland meet buyers. However, all are welcome! Wherever you are based, and however big your business is, there is something useful to be found here! Register FREE here: https://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events-mtb25/. The event is FREE to attend and open to all, but places are limited. Register now: https://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events-mtb25/ If you do not have an existing Supplier Development Programme account, select the Register button first.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published27 May 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Dumfries and Galloway Council is the local authority for the Dumfries and Galloway region in south-west Scotland. Tenders are advertised through Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal used by public bodies across Scotland. Larger contracts often route through Scotland Excel framework agreements, the collaborative procurement body owned by Scottish councils. A dedicated procurement team operates from Carruthers House in Dumfries, the council's headquarters. Low-value, low-risk work goes out as direct quotes rather than full tenders, a route aimed at small, local suppliers. Annual procurement performance is reported under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Dumfries and Galloway Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

15000000 · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
18000000 · Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories
31000000 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
38000000 · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
45000000 · Construction work
48000000 · Software package and information systems
50000000 · Repair and maintenance services
60000000 · Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
63000000 · Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services
64000000 · Postal and telecommunications services
66000000 · Financial and insurance services
70333000 · Housing services
71000000 · Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
75230000 · Justice services
79952000 · Event services
80000000 · Education and training services
85000000 · Health and social work services
85300000 · Social work and related services
85310000 · Social work services
85311100 · Welfare services for the elderly
85311200 · Welfare services for the handicapped
85311300 · Welfare services for children and young people
85312000 · Social work services without accommodation
85312100 · Daycare services
85312110 · Child daycare services
85312120 · Daycare services for handicapped children and young people
85312200 · Homedelivery of provisions
85312300 · Guidance and counselling services
85312310 · Guidance services
85312320 · Counselling services
85312330 · Family-planning services
85312400 · Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
85312500 · Rehabilitation services
85312510 · Vocational rehabilitation services
85320000 · Social services
85321000 · Administrative social services
85322000 · Community action programme
85323000 · Community health services
90000000 · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@dumfries-and-galloway-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@dumfries-and-galloway-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@dumfries-and-galloway-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@dumfries-and-galloway-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@dumfries-and-galloway-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@dumfries-and-galloway-council.gov