Lancashire County Council

How to win their contracts

Measured from Lancashire County Council'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 157 of their tenders.
• They publish about 7.4 tenders a month, measured over 70 months of history.
• Half of their 167 awarded contracts are worth £1.6m or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in health and social work services, sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are For Individual Contract Awards by Lancashire County Council see https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/business/tenders-and-procurement/tenders/dynamic-purchasing-system-for-the-supply-of-asphalt-aggregates-and-concrete-lcc43233/ (5), CHANGE, GROW, LIVE SERVICES LIMITED (2), Ralph Livesey Limited (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.