{"id":442,"date":"2015-11-25T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/?post_type=question&#038;p=442"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:26:55","slug":"at-what-point-are-tenders-required","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/question\/at-what-point-are-tenders-required\/","title":{"rendered":"At what point are tenders required?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Devon County Council\u2019s own code of business conduct the thresholds for tendering are as follows :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Above \u00a31000 and up to \u00a32500 two oral quotations.<\/li>\n<li>Above \u00a32500 (\u00a35000 for works) and up to \u00a310000 three written quotations.<\/li>\n<li>Above \u00a310000 and up to \u00a350000 three formal quotations to be submitted in writing by a specified time and based on a written specification and award criteria.<\/li>\n<li>Above \u00a350000 and up to the relevant European Union threshold four formal tenders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The European Union has various thresholds for different types of contract and contracting organisation but the main thresholds relevant to Devon County Council are as follows :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supplies Contracts\u00a3139,893<\/li>\n<li>Services Contracts\u00a3139,893<\/li>\n<li>Works Contracts\u00a33,497,313<\/li>\n<li>Any contract over these thresholds must be carried out in compliance with all relevant European Union procurement regulations, timescales and be advertised in the OJEU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faq-topic":[5],"faq-tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","faq-topic-procurement-faqs"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-topic?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"faq-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}