Awarded contract

Provision of Heritage Services

Details

Buyer: Somerset Council
Supplier(s): South West Heritage Trust
Value: £31,400,000
Topic: Facilities management services
Published: 16 January 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Grant agreement relating to Heritage Services. The funding period shall be from 1st November 2024 to 31st October 2044. Lot 1: The South West Heritage Trust will care for Somerset's heritage and make it available as further described below in order to achieve the following outcomes: - Somerset residents, visitors and other people understand, experience and enjoy the county's heritage - Enabling people from diverse backgrounds to learn from Somerset's heritage and be inspired by it. - Encouraging individuals and communities to get involved in Somerset's heritage. - Making Somerset's heritage as accessible as possible. - Somerset's heritage is protected, conserved and enhanced - Making sure Somerset's heritage is excellently cared for - Providing expert advice to protect Somerset's rich heritage. - Somerset's heritage is well managed - Somerset's heritage contributes to a sense of place, to health and wellbeing and to the cultural economy

Timeline

Completed: Award date20 December 2024
Completed: Award published16 January 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Somerset Council is a unitary local authority that buys through its own central procurement team. Suppliers register free on the Proactis Supplier Network, a shared e-procurement portal used across the South West. Above certain value thresholds set by the Procurement Act 2023, tenders also appear on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Larger contracts go to formal tender through the council's e-tendering system. Quotes are invited from multiple suppliers for lower-value goods, works and services. Commissioning favours suppliers who can show social value, environmental impact and local supply chain benefits.

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 Somerset Council's contract awards have been in construction work, education and training and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

79993100 · Facilities management services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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