Useful links

• Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)

CIPS is an international organisation, based in the UK, serving the purchasing and supply profession.  Dedicated to promoting good procurement practice, CIPS provides a wide range of services for the benefit of members and the wider business community.

• Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)

The department helps ensure business success in an increasingly competitive world, boost productivity and keep the UK competitive and an attractive place to do business as well as to help companies succeed overseas and to bring foreign investment to the UK.

• Office of Government Commerce (OGC)

OGC works with government to improve procurement and project and programme management. OGC also works with suppliers to make the government marketplace more efficient and attractive to business.

• Catalist

  is a collaborative tool offering a wide range of products and services for purchasing that have already been competed in the marketplace.

• SIMAP

For suppliers this site gives background information about the procurement market and links to other sites with information about procurement opportunities across the European Union and beyond.

• Supply2.gov.uk

Supplying Government gives companies easy access to lower-value contract opportunities (typically worth under £100,000) offered by the public sector.

• Tenders Electronic Daily (TED)

TED is the quickest way to access public sector contract opportunities published each day in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union .  Access is free of charge. You can also view archives for the last five years.