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Guidance For Suppliers

AccountNI - important changes to CPD's financial processes
Outlining the changes to CPD's financial processes from December 2007, caused by the establishment of AccountNI, a shared service centre.
Buildsafe NI
Buildsafe NI is a five-year initiative to reduce the numbers of deaths and injuries in the construction industry.
Guidance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Contains links to CPD's Public Procurement publications, "a guide for small and medium-sized enterprises" and "removing the barriers to SMEs".
Management Consultancy / Financial Services Frameworks 2008
CPD, on behalf of its clients, intends to establish Framework Agreements for both Management Consultancy and Financial Services.
Achieving Excellence Initiative for Northern Ireland
Aims to make the public sector client a best practice client when procuring construction projects and services.
Construction Initiatives
The initiatives are intended to help achieve continuing improvement in value for money, based on whole-life cost and quality and to enhance the competitiveness of suppliers.
Low Carbon Design
CPD's contribution to the Low Carbon Design Initiative and reductions in Carbon Dioxide emissions.
CEEQUAL
CPD is helping to promote the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Award (CEEQUAL)
National Fraud Initiative
Level 2 Fair Processing Notification - Department of Finance and Personnel's data matching exercises, further information available from the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
Utilising the Unemployed in Public Service Contracts
Procurement Policy's emphasis on the role that procurement should play in tackling unemployment in Northern Ireland.
Current Framework Agreements/Call-Off Arrangements
CPD's current contracts - these Framework Agreements/Call-Off Arrangements are designed to facilitate the call-off of teams to undertake projects as the need arises by means of a secondary competition between the teams appointed to the framework agreement.
Tendering Process Overview
eCommerce is revolutionising the approach to procurement, CPD is at the forefront of this revolution and CPD's tendering processes are outlined on this page.
Successful Delivery Toolkit
A link to the Office Of Government Commerce's Successful Delivery Toolkit, designed to help organisations achieve efficiency and excellence.
Constructionline
A link to Constructionline, the UK's register of pre-qualified local and national construction, and construction-related, suppliers.
Achieving Excellence
A link to the Constructing Excellence in Northern Ireland website.
Equality of Opportunity and Sustainable Development in Public Procurement
(pdf, 1.6mb)
The guidance is aimed at policy-makers and procurement professionals, on how to integrate equality and sustainable development considerations into the procurement process while meeting the existing statutory duties in relation to equality of opportunity and sustainable development. The guidance applies to all public sector procurement, including Public Private Partnertship or Private Finance Initiative projects.
Guidance for Social Economy Enterprises
(pdf, 338kb)
CPD's Public Procurement publication "a guide for Social Economy Enterprises"
Invitation to an Industry Forum for Print Services
(pdf, 66kb)
At 9.15am in the Maynard Sinclair Pavilion, Stormont Estate on Thursday 25 June 2009.
[Page last updated: 01 June 2009]