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Published 17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BST
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Mobile Telephone Contract

The City of Liverpool College
Education
No classification published
North West (UKD)
Published value
Not published
Contract value exc. VAT
Submission deadline
Open opportunity
complete
Lots published
1
Lots published in procedure
Contract duration
Standard
Published delivery schedule
Electronic Sourcing Gateway:
Published portal

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification
Tenderline summary generated from the published notice
Executive Summary: The City of Liverpool College: "Mobile Telephone Contract". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Official Requirement Description:
36 x month contract with EE for mobile telephone provision

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period:
    Not published
    Eligibility:
    Not published

Qualification snapshot & criteria

Go / No-Go Decision Box
Criteria & entry requirements
Evaluation weighting
Award criteria weighting not published in structured data — consult the tender pack documents.
Incumbent & Market Position
Top Retained Vendor (Authority Spend)SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LIMITEDHolds 100% of historical attributable spend
Entry requirements & qualification
  • Turnover Benchmark
    Guideline requirement: ~2× annual contract value annual turnover.Per Cabinet Office EFS 2026 & Sourcing Playbook: general proportionality cap (~2× run-rate), not an automatic disqualifier.
  • Insurance Commitments (No Upfront Purchase Needed)
    Standard public thresholds: Employer Liability (£5m), Public Liability (£5m-£10m), Professional Indemnity (£1m-£5m).✓ Commitment required upon award only — no upfront policy purchase needed to bid
  • Accreditations & Security Vetting
    Check tender pack for Cyber Essentials Plus (PPN 014 risk-proportional), ISO 27001/9001, and BPSS / SC security clearance requirements for named delivery personnel.
    • Source: Cabinet Office Sourcing Playbook & EFS Guidance.

    Buyer track record & authority intelligence: The City of Liverpool College

    Rolling 24 months
    Derived from OCDS data
    Published track record for The City of Liverpool College. These figures describe rolling 24 months, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
    Avg price drop
    Not availableEarly / insufficient sample
    Requires 5 comparable published awards
    Competition Density
    5Bids / Report (median)
    Single-bidder rate: 0%
    Supplier Concentration
    No estimate
    SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LIMITEDTop vendor: 100% of attributable value
    Published spend
    £108,000Historical spend
    Cumulative GBP spend across 1 retained awards
    Methodology & coverage notes (1 active published awards)
    Coverage: 1 active published awards; 1 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
    Historical Awarded Suppliers in this Category (CPV 32):
    Supplier Name
    Historic Awards
    Attributable Value
    Avg. Price Discount
    SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LIMITED1 win£108,0000% (at budget)

    Sector Market Benchmark & Opportunity Radar

    CPV 32 · UK Sector Analysis
    Observed CPV-sector evidence
    Prepared 7 Sept 2026, 17:08 BST
    Observed CPV-sector evidence where it exists, with clearly labelled UK all-sector context for sparse fields; this is market context, not a bid forecast.
    Median Winning Discount
    2.2%
    CPV sector evidence · 65 comparable price observations
    Typical Bids Received
    3reported bids
    CPV sector evidence · 839 published bid reports
    Decision Velocity
    ~44 days
    CPV sector evidence · median from 72 completed procedures
    Notice Stability
    1 updates
    Published terms remained unchanged
    Top Contenders in this Sector (CPV 32)
    Active commercial suppliers winning public contracts in this field
    Supplier
    Awards won
    Total awarded value
    Avg. winning discount
    Full list of successful suppliers is available on Contracts Finder
    		1 contract£6,400,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    EE Ltd and British Telecommunications Plc
    		1 contract£1,850,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    Mears Limited
    		2 contracts£1,800,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    Constellia Public LimitedCRN: 08664789
    		3 contracts£1,602,500,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    Airwave SolutionsCRN: 03985643
    		5 contracts£1,564,981,925At ceiling / not disclosed
    IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITEDCRN: PNQM-8935-PYGQ
    		25 contracts£1,362,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    STS DefenceCRN: 03193298
    		6 contracts£1,175,054,335At ceiling / not disclosed
    Trapeze ITS Switzerland GmBH LimitedCRN: CH-290.4.016.518-7
    		4 contracts£959,213,500At ceiling / not disclosed
    EE Ltd
    		1 contract£826,750,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    TELENT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITEDCRN: PYGC-6427-QMNZ
    		17 contracts£763,316,277At ceiling / not disclosed
    Comparable Published Opportunities & Re-tender Precedents
    Historic records ranked from matching published evidence. They serve as research precedents for contract scoping, specifications, and previous awardees.
    No sufficiently evidenced comparable record has been calculated yet.
    Method: tender-intelligence-v1. Empirical OCDS facts and cross-sector percentiles; missing fields remain unrecorded.

    Procedure terms & legal framework

    Procedure methodStandard public procedureLegal basisStandard UK Procurement RulesProcurement categoryServices
    Notice statuscompleteProcurement thresholdSub-thresholdRegulatory regimeStandard commercial regime
    Commercial structureStand-alone contract (No framework)Competition typeCompetitive procedureGPA WTO coveredUnspecified in notice
    Recurring procurementNo (One-off requirement)First published17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BSTLast source update17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BST
    Classification (CPV)Unspecified in notice
    Delivery areaLocation not published
    Official Registry OCIDocds-h6vhtk-054e78
    Timeline
    1. Procedure published
      17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BST
    2. Award pending
      Not published · £74,981

    Commercial outcome and contract awards

    Awards (1)
    EE Ltd
    £74,981 · Not published · pending
    Contracts (0)No contract published
    Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
    Notice history
    From official release and amendment events
    1. Status changed to complete
      17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BST
    2. Official notice release published
      17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BST
    3. Buyer information updated
      17 Jun 2025, 15:19 BST

    Buyer and organisations in this procedure

    The City of Liverpool College

    Contracting authority
    Education
    GB-UKPRN-10003955
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    Award and contract changes

    Official Documents & Specifications (0)

    Official links; attachments are not copied
    No data
    No linked documents are published
    Procedure justification & pre-market engagement
    Official Statement
    Procedure rationale (direct award / limited competition)The City of Liverpool College has created a 36 month contract for mobile telephones and wanted to award to EE Ltd.