Tenders and contracts
London Borough of Tower Hamlets spends £400m annually with
suppliers and providers of all sizes to help deliver essential
services to more than 240,000 residents.
In this section, you can find current contract opportunities and
details of where we advertise contracts depending on the contract
type and value. If you're a local supplier, based within Tower
Hamlets, you can find out how to place your organisation on the
East London Business Place list as part of an initiative
to boost the local economy.
You can learn about the council's e-Procurement systems,
notably the Requisition to Pay
system, which is used to exchange purchase orders and invoices
between the council and its suppliers. We use a separate system to
exchange pre-tender and tender documents between the council and
suppliers, this is known as e-tendering.
The procurement team provide guidance and support to council
officers and challenges procurement operations across the council
to promote fair and open procurement procedures and reflect the
councils strategic objectives. Procedures are in place to
ensure the council achieves value for money in all its
purchases and that they reflect the council's strategic aims.
- Selling to Tower Hamlets - where we
advertise contracts based on the value and nature of the
contract.
- Tender opportunities -
contracts for work to be undertaken on our behalf that
are currently available for tender, or are coming up for
tender.
- e-procurement - e-procurement
is an electronic procurement process, where the exchanging of
pre-tender and tender documents is dealt with over a web
based programme.
- Requisition to Pay (R2P) - also
e-procurement but R2P focuses on the exchange of purchase orders
and invoices between us and suppliers.
General terms and conditions for the supply of goods, services
and works.
Please read
our general terms and conditions, which operate in their
entirety with contracts made between the council and a contractor
for the supply of goods and services (pdf, 32 kb).
Procurement Advice Centre
If you have a general query concerning procurement such as how
to do business or who to contact, please contact our
Procurement Advice Centre on procurement_advice_centre@towerhamlets.gov.uk or
call us on 020 7364 4044.
Timber pledge
In 2011, Tower Hamlets Council achieved the bronze timber pledge
from WWF, the world’s leading conservation body.
- The bronze pledge means that we are operate a policy of buying
sustainable and legal forest products, such as paper and
timber
- We attended a CPET workshop on responsible procurement of
forest products, and the importance of valuing forest resources.
Interested local suppliers were also invited to attend the training
workshop.
- We have trained our procurement and other key staff on the
purchasin of legal and sustainable responsible timber
products.
Find out more
Contact procurement
For information or assistance relating to the purchase or tender
of goods and services by the council please contact the Procurement
Office.
Email: procurement@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7364 4099
Mulberry Place
5 Clove Crescent
London
United Kingdom
E14 2BG
How to get to Mulberry Place
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
Wheelchair access is available.
Transport: Docklands Light Rail (DLR) to East India Dock or
Blackwall.
Bus: D6, D8, 277, 15, 115