Contracts and tenders

The LGA is publishing details of contracts and tenders. This is in order to be transparent and to be open and accountable in the same way that is asked of our member councils.

• Supplier.
• Start date.
• End date.
• Estimated Total Contract Value (TCV).
• Contract title.

LGA contract register (CSV file)

Current tenders

Provision of leadership development services within a party political environment

The Local Government Association and its affiliated bodies require an external supplier for the design and delivery of a political leadership development programme over a two year term (2012-2014) and invite suitably experienced firms or individuals to tender for the contract.

Its scope will be to design and deliver one of three streams of the Next Generation Leadership programme, aimed at councillors from the three main political parties – Conservative, Liberal Democrat or Labour. Applicants must be able to demonstrate, with supporting references, past performance in providing similar leadership development services within a party political environment.

Interested companies or individuals should request a Request for Quotation (RFQ) document from: tenders@lga.gov.uk
clearly stating which stream of the programme they intend to tender for – Conservative, Liberal Democrat or Labour.

The closing date for the receipt of the RFQ is 18 May at 2.00 pm.

Provision of leadership development services for senior public sector politicians and officers

The Local Government Association and its affiliated bodies require an external supplier for the design and delivery of a leadership development programme over a two-year term (2012-2014) and invite suitably experienced firms or individuals to tender for the contract.

Its scope will be to design and deliver the Leeds Castle Leadership Programme, currently for local authority leaders and chief executives. Applicants must be able to demonstrate, with supporting references, past performance in providing similar leadership development services, working jointly with senior politicians and officers together.

Interested companies or individuals should request the Invitation to Tender documents from: tenders@lga.gov.uk

Important dates

The closing date for the receipt of the completed ITT is 20 April at 2.00 pm.
The closing date for the issue of the ITT is 13 April 2012.
The latest date to seek clarification and submit queries is 16 April 2012.

Awarded contracts

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) impact assessment contract

The contract for the provision of evaluation and survey services was awarded to Ove Arup and Partners Limited (trading as Arup) on the 26 April 2012 and is expected to run until 2016.

Invitation to tender (ITT) for the Planning Advisory Service Impact Assessment contract (PDF, 25 pages, 99KB)

External audit services

Commencing: 1 April 2012
The contract for the provision of external audit services to the LGA and its affiliated companies was awarded to Littlejohn LLP. The contract will run until 2015 and there is an option to extend for a further year.

Invitation to tender (ITT) for the external statutory audit of the LGA (PDF, 31 pages, 432KB )

Pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) of the external statutory audit services of the LGA (PDF, 23 pages, 568KB )