Doing business with the council

All contracts with a total value of £25,000 or more are advertised on the following websites:

• Source Leicestershire
• Contracts Finder 
• East Midlands Procurement Portal

We also buy commonly used goods and services through Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO).

• Learn about becoming an ESPO supplier

How we advertise

All contracts exceeding the European Procurement Directive threshold are advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). The thresholds are:

• £181,302 for services/supplies
• £589,148 for social care, health and other specified services
• £4,551,413 for works

Pre-qualification questionnaire

To help make the procurement process as accessible as possible, we use the standard Pre-Qualification Questionnaire developed by the Crown Commercial Services.

Current procurement contracts

Contracts valued over £5,000 in total (over the length of the contract) are listed below. 

The list includes some frameworks agreements let by ESPO that are used by the council.

Current council contracts

If you have any queries about this information email commissioning.support@leics.gov.uk

Note: this month’s list does not contain Adult Social Care as the current contracts are under review.

CSV files

We have produced this information in CSV format so that it can be easily read using different applications. CSV uses a standard column width and so you may need to expand some columns to view all the data.

Further reading