Doing business with the Council

This guidance relates to registering as a supplier on the new, enhanced Find a Tender Service.

What is the Central Digital Platform? 

Central Digital Platform is an online portal which will make it easier for suppliers to find and bid for contracts, and for buyers to meet their transparency commitments under the Procurement Act 2023. 

The Central Digital Platform has been designed to:

• Feature a simple registration and identification for both suppliers and buyers.
• Store suppliers’ core business details that can be used for multiple bids.
• Enable easy management and updating of core information quickly, and shared easily between suppliers, eSenders and buyers.
• Make public procurement opportunities visible making it easier to search at no cost and set up alerts for tenders of interest for suppliers.
• Allow for procurement noticing throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Capture procurement data and eventually allow creation of dashboards to analyse that data

Additional video guidance is available detailing these steps. You should use this guide when registering your organisation on the service for the first time.

If you need help with completing supplier information, please watch the walkthrough video below or read the supporting user guide and follow the instructions provided.