NEPO219 - Building Materials & Managed Stores
- Buyer
- The Association of North East Councils Limited (NEPO)
- Value
- £800,000,000
- Closes
- 30 October 2026
- Where
- Gateshead, the North East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
NEPO is looking for suppliers to provide integrated materials management solutions and managed stores services to local authorities and public sector organisations across the North East. This is a large framework agreement (worth around £800 million) where suppliers will help councils and public bodies manage, store and distribute building materials and consumables more efficiently.
What the buyer wants
• Provide integrated materials management solutions that allow councils and public bodies to source, control, and distribute building materials, products and consumables efficiently • Operate managed stores environments or coordinated supply channels (possibly working with multiple merchants, distributors and manufacturers) • Deliver services that may include inventory management, replenishment, centralised distribution, ordering systems, supply chain coordination, data reporting and demand forecasting
Lots
- Integrated Materials Management Solutions and Managed Stores
- General Materials
- Plumbing, Heating, Gas & Building Services
- Electrical
- Kitchens
- Modular & Portable Buildings
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a very large, complex framework designed for established integrated materials management companies or major merchants with sophisticated IT systems, multiple supply chain partners and significant operational scale: most small independent tradespeople or single-site businesses would be unable to meet the requirement to provide coordinated multi-supplier integrated solutions.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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