Reading Borough Council

Upcoming opportunities

• Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Support Services

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 16 Nov, 202611 daysValue £3.70mSource Find a Tender

  Reading Borough Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a planned procurement of rough sleeping and homelessness support services in early 2027. The future commissioning programme will support delivery of the Council's Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2026-2031, which sets

• Integrated 0-19 (0-25 SEND) Public Health Nursing Service

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 6 Nov, 20261 dayValue £22.00mSource Find a Tender

  Reading Borough Council are tendering for a service to deliver high quality 0-19 (up to 25 for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) Public Health Nursing in Reading. Since services fall within CPV Code 85323000-9 (community health services delivered to individuals) the procurement will be carried out under the P

• Vehicle Workshop Maintenance Services

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 14 Oct, 2026Source Find a Tender

  The objectives of this project are to have successfully procured a vehicle workshop maintenance service which meets the needs of the Council's requirements. The requirements of RBC are expected to be divided into the following lots where suppliers may bid for one, more, or for All Lots. For the purposes of this contrac

• School Meals Contract

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 19 Oct, 2026Value £14.70mSource Find a Tender

  The objectives of this project are to have successfully procured a school meals service which meets the needs of governors, schools, pupils and their families by the deadline agreed with governors and schools. Funding for this contract is made up as follows: Paid Meals: Meal price collected from parents directly by con

• Employer's Agent & Multi Disciplinary Professional Services

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 24 Aug, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Reading Borough Council (RBC) requires access to a corporate Employer's Agent (EA) and multidisciplinary professional consultancy service to support the planning, procurement, delivery and post-completion administration of construction, refurbishment, compliance and asset-related projects across the Council's property

• Assets and Facilities Management Software

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 12 Aug, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Reading Borough Council is seeking market engagement with suppliers capable of delivering a single, integrated, cloud-hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for Property, Asset, Estates and Facilities Management. The Council is seeking to replace and consolidate multiple existing systems into a unified platform t

• Independent Fostering Agency (IFA) Retainer Block Pilot

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 21 Aug, 2026Value £49.60kSource Find a Tender

  Reading Borough Council is undertaking a soft market testing and engagement exercise to explore a new commissioning approach for securing local foster care capacity through a retainer based block model. The Council is seeking early engagement with Independent Fostering Agencies (IFAs) to test whether this approach is v

• Pantomime Procurement

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 20 May, 2026Value £1.16mSource Find a Tender

  The Hexagon, Reading's largest entertainment venue, delivers a wide-ranging and diverse programme of events throughout the year. The annual pantomime represents the most commercially significant and strategically important component of the venue's programme. In 2022, a formal procurement process was undertaken to appoi

• Cleaning Services

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 9 Apr, 2026Source Find a Tender

  The current hybrid cleaning services arrangement is due to end in September 2026, and an opportunity to deliver services with a new cleaning service partner via a compliant procurement process to ensure continuity of service with reduced costs via innovation. We will test the market, and put in place a modern, value fo

• School and Social Care Transport Framework

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 11 Mar, 2026Value £36.16mSource Find a Tender

  The local authority has a statutory duty to provide free travel assistance to pupils who meet the qualifying criteria. Most of the pupils who qualify receive a bus pass. For children and young people with special educational needs and/or a disability may be eligible to bespoke travel arrangements, such as a taxi or mi

• 02-Procurement Strategy-AT-HC-2025 Cemetery Exten-02

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 10 Feb, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Site construction and completion This procurement relates exclusively to Stage 2: the appointment of a Design and Management Team, including a Planning Consultant, to manage the project from RIBA Stage 1 to Stage 6. The appointed consultant will be responsible for: Developing the design and managing delivery of the e

• Coroner's Service Toxicology Notice corrections

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 5 Feb, 2026Value £392.70kSource Find a Tender

  NOT A LIVE OPPORTUNITY Correction of UK6 2025/S 000-071151 and UK12 2025/S 000-072410 This Planned Procurement notice is issued in effort to correct the previously published UK6 2025/S 000-071151. The procurement was awarded before it was noted that the wrong scoring methodology had been used in the evaluation process

• Fabric Reactive Repairs, Planned Preventative Maintenance and Works

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 8 Dec, 2025Source Find a Tender

  We intend to procure trade contract packages to support the maintenance and repair of our Corporate and Community buildings. Calls for repairs are raised by premises users (excluding Highways and Housing) and managed by the Corporate Property Services Team, supported by the Property and Facilities Management Technical

• Whitley Wood Community Centre and LANB Scheme

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 19 Nov, 2025Value £11.20mSource Find a Tender

  Appointment of a contractor to obtain planning consent and deliver a minimum 14 new homes along with associated community centre, pharmacy, shop and public square.

• RBC Scaffolding Contract

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 3 Nov, 2025Value £2.50mSource Find a Tender

  Provision of scaffolding to enable works to residential properties and buildings owned and managed by Reading Borough Council

• End User Workspace and Hosting

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 28 Oct, 2025Value £11.20mSource Find a Tender

  £14,000,000 project over five years comprised of an initial period of three years, followed by an allowable extension period of no longer than twenty four months.

• Voluntary and Community Sector Infrastructure Support Service

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 7 Oct, 2025Value £650.00kSource Find a Tender

  Reading Borough Council is looking to commission an Infrastructure Support Provider to build capacity, sustainability, representation, and the effectiveness of the Voluntary and Community Sector in Reading. The VCS infrastructure support contract will support the Voluntary and Community Sector within the borough, enab

• Wayfinding Signage Strategy and Implementation

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 26 Sept, 2025Value £50.00kSource Find a Tender

  We are seeking professional support for the development and implementation of a Civic Wayfinding Strategy, as part of the transformation of our Civic Offices. This includes the design, fabrication, supply, and installation of RBC-branded signage across the following key locations: New Central Library Redesigned Custo

• Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery contract

  Location: South East

  UpcomingPublished 19 Sept, 2025Value £35.00mSource Find a Tender

  An integrated behavior change, treatment and recovery focused service for drug and alcohol users including all classifications of drugs, those with poly-drug use and those using new psychoactive substances ('legal highs'). The integrated service will be provided to drug and/or alcohol users with a range of complexities

• Supported Living Framework

  Location: South East

  UpcomingEngagement closes 10 Sept, 2025Value £120.00mSource Find a Tender

  The procurement is for a Supported Living Framework contract. The contract will utilise the use of Lots which would cover accommodation-based supported living, community support and complex needs. In line with the Social Care Futures vision of Adult Social Care: 'We all want to live in the place we call home, with the