From 1 January 2022 the current YORtender portal will be replaced with a new version. If you have a YORtender account you will need to register on the new system unless you have already registered with the Mercell tender portal or had confirmation that your supplier account has been transferred across.
All our tenders are now being advertised on the new portal.
If you have an outstanding tender on the old system that will not be finalised before 31 December 2021 we will contact you. If you need to, you can still use the old YORtender portal until the end of the year.
Procurement pipeline
Our procurement pipeline provides a forward look of potential and current procurement activity.
The pipeline includes market engagements, planned procurements, tenders in progress and future pipeline opportunities.
For clarity:
- there is no guarantee that any published opportunity will lead to a tender publication or contract award
- the information in the pipeline reflects the anticipated procurement pipeline as at the publication date and may be subject to change
- a decision to procure any of these requirements is subject to our decision-making process
- the publication of value is an estimation for indicative purposes only
- the information and material contained in this publication is provided for general information purposes only
- the procurement pipeline will be updated every 6 months (minimum)
All notices and our current procurements are posted on the YORtender portal.
Contracts register
Our contracts register provides further information on our awarded contracts and frameworks. It contains contracts for all Yorkshire and Humber Local Authorities. Please search for contracts under Sheffield City Council.
Becoming a supplier
We compete our contracts through the YORtender online portal. If you are a sole supplier or any size business and you are interested in doing business with us, you can bid on our open tenders on YORtender.
It is free to register. Please try to avoid duplicating supplier registrations.
Using YORtender
All our tender opportunities require some additional information to be submitted using YORtender. Many of the tenders that we advertise contain a YORtender contract reference number, which can be used to access relevant supporting documents and further information regarding the tender.
There will be a deadline date by which you will need to submit your tender. During this time you will have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have using YORtender.
Once the deadline has passed we will collate all the responses received for an evaluation panel to go through and evaluate. Responses will be evaluated on a balance of price and quality and this will be detailed in the tender documents.
We will then notify the successful and unsuccessful applicants via the YORtender portal, offering feedback if you have been unsuccessful.
YORtender is an externally hosted system and you should contact their support team if you have issues using it uksupport@eu-supply.com.
Other opportunities
We may ‘call-off’ established frameworks including CCS, YPO and ESPO for example. We do not hold approved supplier lists.
Additionally open opportunities over £25,000 are also advertised on the government's Contracts Finder which collates potential opportunities from all public bodies from a range of e-procurement portals. Contracts Finder is recommended if you are searching for a range of business opportunities.
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) publish a procurement pipeline. You can find this on their website.