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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: P-0603 SECURITY SERVICES
2. Awarding Authority: Manchester City Council, Floor 5 (Mount Street Elevation), Manchester, GB, Greater Manchester, M60 2LA. Tel: 01612345000. Email: kendy.li@manchester.gov.uk. (Kendy Li)
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: The Awarding Authority is procuring security and crowd-safety services across three Lots covering Specialist Markets, City Events, and the Taxi Marshal Scheme. Lots 1 and 2 will be established as single supplier framework agreements to support a flexible annual programme of markets and events. Lot 3 will be procured as a single-supplier contract to deliver a uniformed Taxi Marshal service supporting the safe and effective operation of taxi ranks within the City Centre night time economy.
Manchester City Council seeks suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver security, stewarding, crowd management and associated services across its markets, events, and nighttime-economy operations. Providers must demonstrate the ability to deploy trained and SIA-licensed personnel, provide resilience at short notice, and deliver high-quality customer-facing services across busy and complex urban environments.
The procurement comprises the following Lots:
Lot 1: Specialist Markets (Framework)
Lot 2: Events (Framework)
Lot 3: Taxi Marshals (Contract)
It is intended that Manchester City Council will award the framework agreements as follows subject to meeting the Award Criteria stated in the ITT documents:
Lot 1 – Specialist Market to a single supplier
Lot 2 – Events to a single supplier
This frameworks will allow Manchester City Council to call off contracts by Direct Award without competition.
There is no restriction on the number of Lots a supplier may tender for, or be awarded to.
Subcontracting of any part of the services is prohibited for all Lots.
Contract length for all Lots will be 2 years with the option to extend for an additional 2 years.
5. CPV Code(s): 79710000, 60120000, 79952000
6. NUTS code(s): UKD, UKD3, UKD33
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Region(s) of supply Greater Manchester
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Opportunity Id DN804536
P-0603
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Expression of interest end date 8.5.2026 (11:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: Keywords Taxi Marshals, Security Services, Specialist Market Security Services, Events Security Services
Key dates
Estimated contract dates
Start date 20/07/2026
End date 19/07/2028
TKR-2026430-EX-1870361