Tendring District Council is a member of the Procurement Agency for Essex (PAE). The PAE represents 14 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 Select Service falls into three status levels:-

Select Registered - A Supplier can register their contact details, which will be displayed to buyers, with any other information being withheld until published by the supplier. This is a free of charge service.

Select Certify - The supplier can complete and publish the on-line pre-qualification details required by buyers, including uploading of annual accounts, and then certify that this process is complete. This is a free of charge service.

Select Accredit - Suppliers can choose to pay a small annual fee for their pre-qualification details to be verified and checked and thereby achieve the accredit-certified status. Suppliers who already use Constructionline will automatically be given Select Accredit Status, but will need to register on the PAE portal to receive contract opportunity.

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.