Overview
City West Housing Trust - Procurement Portal is a completely new enhancement to our web site. It offers suppliers the ability to view contract announcements in real time and uses BiP Solutions' e-notice service, for placing EU and non-EU public notices, and facilitates the publication of these notices immediately on this procurement portal giving suppliers instant access to the contract opportunities.
Background
The European Commission recommends in the Consolidated Procurement Directive that authorities provide their purchasing and procurement information via a Buyer Profile and this facility has been incorporated in this procurement portal. The buyer profile provides information on purchase plans, contact details, future, current and past contracts. By publishing this information the offer suppliers the opportunity to identify future opportunities, respond to current opportunities and to view which suppliers have already been awarded contracts along with the goods and/or services purchased.
City West has a number of Framework Agreements which have been set up to allow other social housing providers and local authorities to join and use them. These include:
- City West Contractors Framework Agreement
- City West Stores Framework Agreement
- City West Facilities Management Framework Agreements
The above frameworks were set up in 2009 and will run for four years, as such, no new companies can be appointed to those frameworks during that time period. Any future framework agreements will be advertised through the Official Journal of the European Union.