Doing Business with the Council

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We spend around £20 million each year on goods, works, and services to support essential services across South Derbyshire. This investment helps us deliver high-quality services to over 112,000 residents and around 5,000 businesses in our district.

We are committed to creating opportunities for a wide range of suppliers. Wherever possible, we actively encourage participation from local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs). Our aim is to make our procurement processes clear, fair, and accessible to all suppliers.

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We are currently updating some of our financial information and will provide this soon.

Procurement is the process of acquiring goods, works and services from third parties. This is normally undertaken by obtaining quotations or for larger contracts over £25,000 through a formal tender process.

Suppliers who wish to tender for contracts will find details of existing opportunities on the Council’s e-procurement platform here, or the Government’s Contracts Finder website.

Anyone interested in finding out any further information, including how to tender and to enquire about potential opportunities available etc. should contact us by email at Procurement@southderbyshire.gov.uk