East Renfrewshire Council

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Downloads

• East Renfrewshire Council Procurement Report 2024-2025
• East Renfrewshire Council Procurement Strategy 2023-2026

Here you will find a range of information on working with East Renfrewshire Council.

As a registered partner of the Supplier Development Programme, East Renfrewshire Council are committed to providing support to the local business community in the tendering process, ultimately supporting the economic growth for the area.

East Renfrewshire Council’s Supplier Development Programme provides support to East Renfrewshire businesses in 3 main ways:

• Raising awareness of the opportunities for SME’s from the public sector.
• Increasing business readiness to tender.
• Assisting SME’s in accessing tender opportunities

East Renfrewshire Council offers one-to-one procurement surgeries where you can have the unique opportunity of meeting with an East Renfrewshire Council Procurement Officer to discuss procurement in general.  For more information contact Diane Pirie at diane.pirie@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk. For more information on other business support please see our Useful Links section below or contact your local SDP advisor.

Tendering within the Council

Tendering within the council is conducted centrally by the Corporate Procurement team with all tendering requirements being conducted in compliance the procurement legislation, Public Contract (Scotland) Regulations, the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 and the councils’ Contract Standing Orders. A formal quotation process must be followed where the estimate cost for a particular requirement exceeds to a total value of £10,000 for goods and services and £20,000 for works. The quotation process is conducted using the Public Contracts Scotland Quick Quote. In order for a supplier to be invited to participate in a Quick Quote exercise you must first of all register your details on the Public Contracts Scotland website: www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

Suppliers should also register their details on the Online Trading Network, supplier sign up page of the council website. The Online Trading Network is a database which departments can search when looking for suppliers to invite to a Quick Quote exercise. Please note that this is not an approved list, the list purely acts like an internal yellow pages. Registration is quick and simple with no checks being carried out on the suppliers at this point. Should you be invited to participate in a Quick Quote exercise the necessary checks will be conducted as part of the quotation process.

Any departmental requirement in excess of £50,000 for goods and services and £150,000 works will be formally tendered. Low value requirements that are not covered by a contract or framework are procured at department level.

Useful Links

• East Renfrewshire Council – Tender and Contracts – https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/article/1948/Tenders-and-contracts
• Online Trading Network – https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/OTN https://www.workeastren.co.uk/support-for-business/
• A Guide to Council services for local businesses – http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=20058&p=0
• Business Loan Scotland – https://www.bls.scot/
• Work EastRen employability team – https://www.workeastren.co.uk/ 
• East Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce – https://www.eastrenchamber.org.uk/
• Business Gateway East Renfrewshire – https://www.bgateway.com/local-offices/east-renfrewshire
• Invest East Renfrewshire – http://investeastrenfrewshire.com/
• Business development Grants Programme – https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/businessgrants1618
• Business support in East Renfrewshire – https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/business
• East Renfrewshire Council – Procurement – https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/procurement

Forthcoming events

Events are being shown from regions across the Glasgow area.

Glasgow City Council - Early Years Nursery Provision PSA

Aligned Tender Training - How to use PCS & PCS-T to bid for this opportunity

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 2:00-3:30pm

Webinar

All nursery providers, child minders and childcare settings that provide funded provision for eligible 3 and 4 year old children within the Glasgow boundary are welcome to join this webinar, as we bid for this opportunity in real-time, so that you fully understand what your next step need to be!

How to do business with South Lanarkshire Council

SLC Procurement of Construction

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 2:30-4:00pm

Webinar • Partner Event

SLC is committed to engaging with and supporting local suppliers within the construction sector. In partnership with the Supplier Development Programme, this online event will explain how SLC buys works, goods, and services. We will also demystify procurement routes and provide practical guidance to help suppliers to prepare competitive bids.

Glasgow City Council Mini Bus & Coach Ad-hoc Framework Talking Tenders - Webinar

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 4:30-6:00pm

Webinar

A Talking Tenders webinar to discuss the upcoming Glasgow City Council Mini Bus & Coach Ad-hoc Framework opportunity

Glasgow City Council Mini Bus & Coach Ad-hoc Framework Talking Tenders - In Person

Tuesday 26 May 2026, 4:30-6:00pm

Glasgow • SDP Event

A Talking Tenders session to discuss the upcoming Glasgow City Council Mini Bus & Coach Ad-hoc Framework opportunity

Glasgow City Council Mini Bus & Coach Ad-hoc Framework Aligned Tender Training - Webinar

Tuesday 9 June 2026, 4:30-6:00pm

Webinar

An Aligned Tender Training webinar to discuss the upcoming Glasgow City Council Mini Bus & Coach Ad-hoc Framework opportunity

South Lanarkshire Council, Community Benefit supplier meeting

Thursday 1 October 2026, 10:30am-12:00pm

Webinar

All local SME's that want to work with the SLC should attend this webinar to fully understand what a Community Benefit is. Whether you are a current South Lanarkshire Council Contractor or Supplier looking for a refresh on our approach Community Benefits or new to how SLC manage Community Benefits, this is a great opportunity to hear about the process and speak with representatives from the Procurement Service.