Kent County Council (t/a Procurement Services)

How to win their contracts

Measured from Kent County Council (t/a Procurement Services)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 32 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 12 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.7 tenders a month, measured over 45 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £119k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, transport services (excl. waste transport).
• Their most frequent suppliers are Sharp Business UK PLC (8), The DMS Digital Group Limited (4), Kyocera Document Solutions UK (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.