What the council buys
Lambeth purchase a wide range of goods, services and works which are described below. Current tenders can be found on our contract opportunities page. You can also find out about future tender opportunities in our 3-Year Procurement Plan.
The council has a number of corporate contracts and supplies arrangements for goods or services which are used commonly throughout the council (eg for stationery).
All council departments are required to use these corporate contracts. This means officers should not use the Approved Supplier List for goods or services which are covered by a corporate contract.
Current corporate contracts are marked with an asterisk (*).
Goods
- Office furniture*
- Domestic furniture*
- Cleaning materials*
- Protective clothing*
- Watercoolers*
- Desktop hardware and software*
- Computer consumables*
- General electrical including white goods (cookers, fridges, microwaves etc)*
- Mobile phones*
- Stationery and paper*
- Vehicles (hire).*
Services
- Printing and reprographics
- Catering (school meals, meals on wheels)
- Grounds maintenance
- Refuse collection, recycling, street cleansing
- Estate cleaning
- Building maintenance
- Security
- Building cleaning
- CCTV monitoring
- Passenger transport
- Legal services contracts for various types of specialist legal work*
- Managed service for temporary staff (Badenoch and Clark manage the service on our behalf. If your organisation supplies temporary staff and you would like to be a part of the managed service arrangement please contact the Managed Service Support Team on tel: 020 7926 0276 for further information).*
Works
- Civil engineering works
- Building and associated works contracts (Housing, Schools and Public Buildings).
Investors in People (IiP) is a national quality standard which sets best practice for improving an organisation’s performance through its people. Lambeth achieved corporate IiP recognition in December 2004. Few other councils have achieved corporate recognition.