Procurement, Tenders and Contracts
Welcome to the North Tyneside Council Strategic Procurement pages.
These pages have been developed to provide an overview of procurement and advise of current and future projects being undertaken by the Strategic Procurement Unit.
What is Procurement?
Procurement is the process of acquiring goods, works and services, covering both acquisitions from third parties and from in-house providers.
Procurement includes the negotiation of corporate contracts from the supply of routine goods and services through to the more complex partnership arrangements such as private/public partnerships, joint commissioning with another public sector organisation and construction projects.
The procurement process spans the whole cycle from identification of needs, through to the end of the service contract or the end of the useful life of an asset. In the context of a procurement process, obtaining "best value for money" means choosing the bid that offers "the optimum combination of whole life costs and benefits to meet the customer's requirement".
What Strategic Procurement Do?
Strategic Procurement is dedicated to the development of procurement processes, strategies and best practice as well as the delivery of goods, services and works procurements across the Council.
How we do it?
There is a flow of information between Strategic Procurement and the Council's four directorates, achieved through regular meetings with the Procurement Board which has representatives from each directorate and Practitioners Forums made up of procurement practitioners within each directorate.
What governs us?
As a Government body the Council is bound by procurement regulations, which set out how goods, services and works should be procured. For further information on these regulations please refer to our How to Do Business Guide.
Contact:
Tel: 0191 643 5651
Fax: 0191 643 2430
procurement@northtyneside.gov.uk
We endeavour to keep these web pages as informative and up to date as possible, if you have any suggestions or difficulty finding the information you require please contact monica.brolly@northtyneside.gov.uk.