Winning Welsh Government contracts

Introduction

We spend around £675 million a year buying goods, services, works, ICT and digital tools/services.

We aim to spend this significant investment in a way that achieves best value for money for Wales. We also want to streamline the bidding process for suppliers.

Our procurement priorities

Welsh Government procurement supports our wellbeing objectives. Our priorities are:

• Well-being of Future Generations Act which is embedded into all our activities
• Commitment to the principles of the Wales Procurement Policy Statement.
• To support the delivery of key policy areas. These include decarbonisation, social partnership, fair work and ethical employment in supply chains
• To be accountable and compliant with procedural, legal and international obligations

Potential suppliers should also be aware of the following:

• Our standard procurement terms and conditions for the supply of goods
• Our standard procurement terms and conditions for the supply of services
• Prompt payment policy
• Community benefits eLearning module

How we award our contracts

We use Sell2Wales to advertise all our contracts above £25,000.

Suppliers who want to do business with us must register on Sell2Wales.

Once registered you can see our current contract notices.

Search For notices on Sell2Wales where we also publish our procurement contract notices and contract award details.

eProcurement

We use eTenderWales to run procurements over £25,000.

eTenderWales:

• gives suppliers easy access to tender documents
• provides a secure way of returning tenders
• provides a transparent process for raising queries during the tender process.

About us

An overview of our teams is available here.

You can find examples of our work on our case studies page.

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