Tendring District Council is a member of the Procurement Agency for Essex (PAE). The PAE represents 15 member Local Authorities and Essex County Fire and Rescue Service and works to promote and facilitate collaborative procurement across Essex.

The PAE have adopted BiP Solutions to provide Buyer Profiles and a Procurement Portal. These Portals use the "Select Service" to provide an on line pre-qualification service for the public sector. This service aims to bring buyers into direct contact with suppliers of products and services purchased by the public sector across Essex.

Although, at Tendring, we have not yet fully developed this facility you may like to register as a supplier on the Portal. This may enable you to receive contract opportunities from across Essex.

The Portal allows suppliers to register their interest in current and future opportunities, and begin the pre-qualification process that is required by suppliers to the Public Sector. The BiP Select service offers a simple and structured approach to registering interest and pre-qualification which will deliver value for money to both buyers and suppliers.

Suppliers can begin by registering an interest on Select and complete pre-qualification at a later stage should an opportunity arise. However as the Select registration is for virtually the whole of the Essex Public Sector many suppliers will want to begin their pre-qualification early. This can be done by using the Select Certify Service.

To achieve Select Certify status, suppliers complete an on-line self-certification questionnaire, which is free of charge.

Please be advised that it is not mandatory to use the BiP Select Service.

To access the Tendring District Council Procurement Portal please go to http://tendring.g2b.info/ which includes links to the PAE portal and The Select Service.