• 1. Supply2Defence Service Licence
  • 1.1. This Licence constitutes a legal contract between the organisation identified on the registration form (hereinafter 'your organisation') and BiP Solutions Limited (hereinafter 'BiP') that governs your use of the Service as defined in clause 3 and available at www.supply2defencetenders.com
  • 1.2. Upon completion of your registration, your subscription (whether you have opted for a free or paid-for subscription) to the Service will commence and you will be granted a License to use the Service detailed below as a named user ("you") on behalf of your organisation. By registering for the Service, you confirm that you have authority to enter into this agreement on behalf of your organisation. This Licence applies to the BiP Service programs (including, but not limited to CGI scripts, subscription wizard, HTML code, BiP databases and BiP content and information programs) that you will use.
  • 1.3. You should read these terms carefully. By using the Service you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Licence. If the terms and conditions of this Licence are not accepted in full, you are not authorised to use the Service. You will be deemed to have accepted the Terms and Conditions if you register for the service.
  • 1.4. BiP reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time. Such changes will be effective following posting of the amended version on the site. It is your responsibility to review the terms and conditions regularly to ensure you are aware of the latest terms and conditions. Your continued use of the Service will constitute your acceptance of the modified terms and conditions. If you do not agree to any changes to these Terms and Conditions, then your only remedy is to cease using the Service. If you do not agree to or cannot comply with these terms, you must stop using the Service and, if applicable, cancel your subscription.
• 2. Grant of Licence
  • 2.1. BiP grants your organisation the right to have one named user of the Service (identified by an email address that specifically identifies the user) per registration and/or subscription (hereinafter "Authorised Use") unless your subscription explicitly allows multiple users (multiple email addresses). You may not use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service, except as permitted here under or to the extent such acts may not be prohibited by law in the country of use or create derivative works based on the Service. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by BiP.
• 3. The Service
  • 3.1. Supply2Defence (S2D) is a service to provide insight into the public sector procurement process, to prepare SMEs to become business-ready to tender and to give access to relevant public sector contract opportunities.
  • 3.2. Supply2Defence gives users access to:
    • Free daily email alerts containing relevant contract opportunities in the Defence and Blue Light sector. Alerts are available each working day (excluding UK bank holidays) and provide access to Defence and Blue Light contract information and any additional packages you opt to subscribe to.
    • The S2D online portal where you may tailor your alert profile to your specific business interests and gains access to online procurement tools and resources.
    • Information about events
    • News and resources
  • 3.3. S2D also provides access to contract information outside Defence and Blue Light via optional upgrades. Depending on your chosen or current subscription level, you may therefore see restricted or limited information relating to these additional packages.
  • 3.4. Full access to additional packages will require you to upgrade your subscription subject to subscription charges and the Terms of Business below.
  • 3.5. If BiP receives from you an online request to stop sending email alerts as part of the Service, BiP will do so. Should you elect to submit such a request, you understand that BiP's subsequent agreement to stop sending alerts shall in no way be considered a breach of contract between BiP and your organisation, and as such the contract shall remain fully in force and legally binding. Any request to stop sending email alerts will not stop emails in connection with the renewal of your subscription and any associated payments.
• 4. Terms of Business - paid-for subscriptions
  • 4.1. Subscription term
    • 4.1.1. Should you choose to purchase any upgrades or options after registration, you will enter into a paid-for subscription. This paid-for subscription will commence from the date of first purchase and be for a minimum period of either two (2) months or twelve (12) months depending on your chosen package. Subscription periods associated with purchases of further upgrades or options will be prorated to fall in line with the existing paid-for subscription term.
    • 4.1.2. Your paid-for subscription will continue thereafter for further periods (monthly or annually depending on your chosen package) until you downgrade your subscription via the online Service (see Clauses 4.3 and 4.4).
  • 4.2. Payment Terms
    • 4.2.1. All advertised prices exclude VAT, which is added at checkout where payable. All prices for products and services within the Service are subject to change by BiP at any time.
    • 4.2.2. If a discount has been given against any paid-for subscription, whether as part of any promotional offer or otherwise, the discount will not apply beyond the current paid-for subscription period and the subscription will be renewed at the then prevailing full list price.
    • 4.2.3. By submitting credit or debit card details, you warrant that you are entitled to purchase the paid-for content using those payment details. In the event of an unauthorised payment, BiP reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the paid-for service. If no payment authorisation is received or payment authorisation is subsequently cancelled, BiP may immediately terminate or suspend access to any paid-for service.
    • 4.2.4. You may opt for an annual subscription to be paid monthly by card (see clause 4.2.5). The subscription period is twelve (12) months and the subscription cannot be cancelled during that term.
    • 4.2.5. Where supported by your card type (e.g. Visa MasterCard, Visa Debit, etc.), by making a purchase under these terms and conditions you are granting continuous payment authority on your card. This will be used for your periodic paid-for subscription renewals.
    • 4.2.6. You understand that, once granted, continuous payment authority shall remain in force until you instruct a cancellation of the continuous payment authority in writing by sending an email to helpdesk@supply2defencetenders.com. In the event that you are not willing to grant continuous payment authority, you should undertake your purchase using a card type that does not support continuous payment authority.
    • 4.2.7. In the event that you fail to make any payment on the due date to BiP under this Licence, then, without prejudice to any other remedy or right available to BiP, including the right of termination, BiP shall be entitled to suspend any further Services without liability to BiP.
    • 4.2.8. Where the option to pay by invoice is available on annual paid-for subscriptions, payment is due on receipt of invoice. Failure to make payment on receipt, BiP reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the paid-for service.
    • 4.2.9. Any invoice outstanding may be referred to an external debt collection agency, in which case a surcharge of 15% plus VAT will be payable to cover the collection costs incurred. This surcharge, together with all other charges and legal fees incurred will be the responsibility of the Licensee and will be legally enforceable.
    • 4.2.10. Under the terms of The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998, BiP retains the right to charge interest on overdue accounts. The interest on overdue bills is calculated at the rate of 8% above the Bank of England base reference rate. Purchasers cannot contract out of late payment legislation.
  • 4.3. Downgrading to lower paid-for or free Services
    • 4.3.1. Should you wish to downgrade from one or more of your paid-for elements of the Service, you may submit a request via the online Service.
    • 4.3.2. Downgrade requests will take effect from the end of your paid-for subscription term then in progress.
    • 4.3.3. In any case, your access to the free elements of the Service and any paid-for elements of the Service not explicitly cancelled will continue.
  • 4.4. Cancellation of Free Services
    • 4.4.1. Should you wish to cancel all access to the free service, you must submit a request in writing to helpdesk@supply2defencetenders.com.
  • 4.5. Renewals
    • 4.5.1. Pursuant to 4.1.1 and 4.1.2, a monthly paid-for subscription will continue to renew until you elect to downgrade in accordance with clause 4.3. Should you fail to pay your renewal fee, your paid-for subscription will be downgraded immediately.
    • 4.5.2. Where you have purchased an upgrade on an annual paid-for subscription, we will send you a renewal reminder email 14 days prior to your renewal date. This email will outline the items you currently subscribe to and will detail the renewal costs and the date by which payment will be due. Where continuous payment authority is applicable, you do not need to take any action to renew your paid-for subscription. The periodic fee for your selected services will be debited from your card on the renewal date and your paid-for subscription will be renewed automatically using the card details from your most recent previous transaction.
    • 4.5.3. Where continuous payment authority is not applicable, your paid-for subscription will continue as per clause 4.1.2.
    • 4.5.4. Where the option to pay by invoice is available, pursuant to Clause 4.2.7, you will be invoiced for the paid-for subscription and payment is due upon receipt.
• 5. Other Restrictions
  • 5.1. You acknowledge that this Licence is granted solely to you as a named user on behalf of the organisation identified on the registration form and neither this Licence nor the Service may be transferred, sub-licensed or otherwise assigned. Any export of the Service is subject to the requirements and restrictions of applicable laws and regulations. You may configure the Service for your own use provided it is in support of your Authorised Use. You agree that you will not allow others to use your user name, password and/or account and you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your account. You agree to notify BiP immediately of any unauthorised use of your password and/or account. BiP shall not be responsible for any losses arising out of the unauthorised use of your user name, password or account and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless BiP for any improper, unauthorised or illegal uses of the same.
  • 5.2. Any reference to a linked site or any specific third party product or service by name does not constitute or imply its endorsement by us, and you assume all risk with respect to its use. Under no circumstances shall BiP, nor its affiliates, agents, and suppliers, be liable for any damages, including without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential, or other damages (including without limitation lost profits, lost revenues, or similar economic loss), whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, arising out of the use or inability to use the materials available in this site or any linked site, even if we are advised of the possibility thereof, nor for any claim by a third party except in the case of death or personal injury caused by BiP Solutions Ltd's negligence.
  • 5.3. You shall not copy, use, modify, transmit, distribute, reverse engineer, or in anyway exploit copyrighted or proprietary materials available on this site, except as expressly permitted by BiP. Exporting, or extracting BiP data from this website into other databases is expressly prohibited as is the reselling of BiP information. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names in this site are the marks of the respective owner(s), and any unauthorised use thereof is strictly prohibited. BiP shall not be liable for any errors, inaccuracies or delays in content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. BiP expressly disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of any the content provided, or as to the fitness of the information for any purpose.
• 6. Your Use of BiP Websites and Web-Based Elements of the Service
  • 6.1. You may not use any 'deep-link', 'page-scrape', 'robot', 'spider' or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of any BiP websites, the Service or any Materials or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Service. BiP reserves the right to bar any such activity, including via software and other electronic means.
  • 6.2. You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any portion or feature of the Service, or any other systems or networks connected to the Service or to any BiP server, or to any of the services offered on or through any BiP websites, by hacking, password 'mining' or any other illegitimate means.
  • 6.3. You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any BiP websites, and/or the Service or any connected network, nor breach any of BiP's security or authentication measures. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to any BiP website or the Services, or exploit the Service or any service or information made available or offered by or through BiP's website, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any third party information. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of BiP's websites, Service or other systems. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service. You agree that you will not make or attempt any denial of service attacks against BiP.
• 7. Links to Third Party Sites
  • 7.1. The Service may present links to third party websites not owned or operated by BiP. BiP is not responsible for the availability of these sites or their content. You agree that BiP is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on any content of any such site or goods or services available through any such site.
• 8. Promotions and Advertising
  • 8.1. BiP may present advertisements or promotional materials on or through the Service and on any BiP websites. Your participation in any promotional event is subject to the terms and conditions associated with that event. Your dealings with, or participation in promotions by any third party advertisers on or through the Service are solely between you and such third party. You agree that BiP shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred by you as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third parties on the Service
• 9. Consequences of Breach of these Terms
  • 9.1. In the event that BiP considers or determines, in their complete discretion, that you have breached, violated or contravened any provision of this Agreement or has otherwise demonstrated inappropriate conduct in the use of the Service, BIP reserve the absolute right, at its sole discretion to:
    • a) warn you that you have violated the Licence and ask you to discontinue such conduct; and/or
    • b) discontinue your membership of the Service and / or any other related services, including paid for content / features
    • c) take measures (including terminating, suspending or restricting your use of the Service) to prevent you from using the Service or linking to or accessing the website; and/or terminate this Licence with immediate effect.
  • 9.2. If BiP terminates this Agreement or suspends your account for any of the reasons set forth in this Agreement, BiP shall have no liability or responsibility to you, and BiP will not refund any amounts that you have previously paid.
• 10. Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights
  • 10.1. If BiP receives a notice alleging that you have engaged in behaviour that infringes BiP's or any other party's intellectual property rights, or reasonably suspects the same, BiP may suspend or terminate your account without notice to you. If BiP suspends or terminates your account under this paragraph, it shall have no liability or responsibility to you, including for any amounts that you have previously paid.
• 11. Patents and Trade Marks
  • 11.1. All trademarks, service marks, trade names, slogans, logos, and other indicia of origin that appear on or in connection with the Service are the property of BiP and/or its affiliates. You may not copy, display or use any of these marks without prior written permission of the relevant owner. The Service and/or portions of the Service may be protected under patent law and may be the subject of issued patents and/or pending patent applications.
• 12. Modifications to Service
  • 12.1. BiP reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice to you, without any liability to you or to any third party.
  • 12.2. BiP reserves the right to vary the free and paid-for content/features of the Service and does not guarantee that the content/features of the Service provided free of charge will remain free of charge and does not guarantee that the content /features of the Service provided subject to payment will remain a paid-for service.
• 13. Limited Warranty
  • 13.1. BiP will use reasonable endeavours to make the Service available 24 hours a day during your subscription period. However, BiP will not be liable if for any reason the Service is not available at any particular time or for any reasonable period.
• 14. End User Remedies
  • 14.1. BiP's entire liability and your exclusive remedy in the event that a valid claim is made by you to BiP within the terms of the aforesaid warranty shall be, at BiP's option, the repair, reinstatement or replacement of the Service within a reasonable time.
  • 14.2. If any provision of this Licence is judged to be illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the provisions of the Licence shall continue in full force and effect.
• 15. No Other Warranties
  • 15.1. BiP and its licensors disclaim all other conditions or warranties express or implied, statutory or otherwise which are hereby expressly excluded to the extent permitted by law. For the avoidance of doubt, neither BiP nor its licensors warrant the quality or accuracy of any information or documentation resulting from or transmitted using the Service. There is no warranty by BiP or any other party or person that the functions contained in the Service will meet your requirement or that the operation of the Service will be uninterrupted or error free. You assume all responsibility for the selection of the Service to achieve your intended results, and for the installation use and results obtained from it.
• 16. No Liability for Indirect or Consequential Loss
  • 16.1. Neither BiP nor its licensors shall be liable for any indirect, special or consequential loss, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of use, loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings or for any indirect economic or financial loss whatsoever and howsoever suffered, even if BiP has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
  • 16.2. Nothing in this Licence shall exclude or limit BiP's liability for death or personal injury or any other liability that cannot be lawfully excluded under any applicable law.
• 17. Force Majeure
  • 17.1. BiP will not be liable for any delay in performing or failure to perform its obligations under this Licence due to any cause outside BiP's reasonable control. Such delay or failure shall not constitute a breach of this Licence and the time for performance of the affected obligation shall be extended by such period as is reasonable.
• 18. Privacy and Cookies
  • 18.1. This website uses cookies to store information on your computer. Most of these cookies are essential to make the site work and have already been set. Others help us to improve by giving us some insight into how the site is being used. Our Privacy Policy details the cookies that we set and the information they store.
  • 18.2. By using our site and /or accepting these terms and conditions you are also accepting our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy can be found here.
• 19. Law and Jurisdiction
  • 19.1. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland and any disputes shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland, unless otherwise submitted by BIP Solutions Ltd.

Supply Terms and Conditions version 2.0 - effective from 24 November 2020

Our privacy policy and your personal data

Who we are

We are BiP Solutions Ltd (hereinafter BiP) and we are the data controller of the personal information we maintain and process relating to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your information in accordance with the principles set out in the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). This privacy policy explains how we use the personal information we collect about you when you use our websites or get in contact with us.

What information we collect

When you register with us for one of our services, we receive and store information about you such as the following. Information you provide to us on registering for our eSourcing and Business Intelligence services: We collect information you provide to us. This includes:

• Your name, email address, address and/or postal code, payment method and telephone number. We collect this information in a number of ways, including when you enter it while using our service, interact with our Customer Services, or participate in surveys or marketing promotions;
• Information when you choose to provide account settings, set preferences in your account, or otherwise provide information to us through our service or elsewhere;
• We do not store any personal banking or credit card details.

Information we collect automatically when you use our eSourcing and Business Intelligence services: We collect information about you and your use of our service, your interactions with us and our advertising, as well as information regarding your computer or other device used to access our service (such as mobile devices, operating system, browser). This information includes:

• Your activity on the service, such as user profile matches, viewing history and search queries;
• Details of your interactions with Customer Service such as date, time and reason for contacting us, transcripts of chat conversations and, if you call us, your phone number and call recordings;
• Device IDs or other unique identifiers, device and software characteristics (such as type and configuration), connection information, statistics on page views, referral URLs, IP address (which may tell us your general location), browser and standard web server log information;
• Information collected via the use of cookies and other technologies, including ad data (such as information on the availability and delivery of ads, the site URL, as well as the date and time). See our Cookies section for more details.

We do not collect any personal data from you that we do not need in order to provide, oversee and improve this service to you.

Information we collect for Ingenium and Opus: Information gathered through our eSourcing or Business Intelligence services is not shared with or used by Ingenium or Opus. Ingenium and Opus are entirely separate databases and independently researched whereby we collect contact details such as name, organisation name, organisation address, organisation email, organisation phone number, job title, job function, and industry sector.

Why we collect it

eSourcing and Business Intelligence services:We use information to provide, facilitate, analyse, administer, enhance and personalize our service delivery and support delivery efforts in accordance with our contractual obligations to you. For example, we use information to:

• Process your registration, your orders and your payments, and to communicate with you on these and other topics;
• Provide secure access to our services, manage your account and support quality monitoring;
• Determine your general geographic location to provide localized content, provide you with information we think will be relevant to your business, and help us quickly and efficiently respond to enquiries and requests;
• Prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, including fraud, and enforcing our terms;
• Analyse and understand our customers, improve our service (including user interface experiences) and optimize content selection,search and relevance algorithms, and delivery;
• Communicate with you concerning our service, so that we can send you news, details about new features or content available on our services, and customer surveys;
• Measure the success of our marketing campaigns and to better understand our customers;
• Assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests and other matters relating to your use of the service.

Ingenium and Opus: The information held on contacts in Ingenium and Opus is used to share information we think will be relevant to the contacts business or organisation in B2B, B2G and G2B contexts. This information may be sent on behalf of BiP or on behalf of third parties.

How and where we process it

The personal data that we collect from you and process in relation to our services is processed by our staff in the UK. For the purposes of IT hosting and maintenance, this information is located on servers within the European Union. We do not undertake any automated decision making on the basis of your personal information and third parties do not have access to your personal data unless the law allows them to do so.

What we do to protect it

We take the security of your information very seriously. To oversee the effective and secure processing of your personal information and to safeguard against its loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use and modification, we operate comprehensive data protection and information security policies and procedures, which are certified to the international standards ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, and we use reasonable administrative, logical and managerial measures. We use multiple layers of firewalls, specialist devices to detect and prevent intrusion attempts, and encryption systems to ensure data is scrambled while being transmitted from system to system. We employ strong physical security policies to prevent physical access to our data centres. We perform regular system patching and use independent security specialists to perform penetration tests to reveal vulnerabilities in our systems and to enable them to be fixed proactively. Unfortunately, however, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Who it may be shared with

We disclose your information for certain purposes and to third parties, as described below:
Service Providers: We use other service providers (i.e. companies, agents or contractors) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services to you. For example, we engage service providers to provide infrastructure and IT services, to provide software to enable us administer our business, to process credit card transactions or other payment methods, to collect debts, to analyse and enhance data (including data about users' interactions with our service), and to process and administer consumer surveys. In the course of providing such services, these service providers may have access to your personal information. We do not authorise them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services to us.
Protection of BiP and others: BiP and its Service Providers may disclose and otherwise use your personal and other information where we or they reasonably believe such disclosure is needed to:

• Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
• Enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
• Detect, prevent, or otherwise address illegal or suspected illegal activities (including payment fraud), security or technical issues;
• Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of BiP, its customers or the public, as required or permitted by law.

Business transfers: In connection with any reorganization, restructuring, merger or sale, or other transfer of assets, we will transfer information, including personal information, provided that the receiving party agrees to respect your personal information in a manner that is consistent with our privacy policy.
You may also choose to disclose your information in the following ways:

• While using our services you may have opportunities to post certain information publicly and third parties could use the information you disclose;
• Certain portions of our services may contain tools that give you options to share information by email and social or other sharing applications, using the clients and applications on your smart device and the recipients could use the information you disclose;
• Social plugins for browsers (including those offered by Facebook, Twitter and Google) allow you to share information on those platforms. Social plugins and social applications are operated by the social network themselves and are subject to their own terms of use and privacy policies.

Ingenium and Opus: The data held in Ingenium and Opus may be used to send targeted campaigns and / or surveys on behalf of third party organisations as a managed service, where the data is segmented by job function and various organisational attributes such as industry sector and employee number. Some third parties have access to some of this information via our mailing platform and campaign management service, iServe. On rare occasions, data may be shared directly with a third party to enable them to run their own campaigns via their own platforms. These third parties range through governmental organisations, charities, and businesses across a wide range of industry sectors interested in B2B, B2G and G2B engagement. We do not share the information with organisations interested in B2C. If, as a result of a communication, you have taken an action, such as downloaded a paper or registered for an event for example, information about your engagement with that campaign may be included in campaign performance reporting and may result in further communication relating to the action you have taken.
When you register with us for one of our eSourcing or Business Intelligence services, the details you provide are not used for Ingenium or Opus and we will not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
The only other times we will pass your details to anyone else would be if we are required to do so for fraud or other legal purposes.

How long we keep it

We are required under UK tax law to keep our customers' basic personal data (name, address, contact details) for a minimum of 6 years plus the current year after which time it will be destroyed. Your information that we use for marketing purposes will be kept with us until you notify us that you no longer wish us to retain this information.

Your rights

You can request access to your personal information or correct or update inaccurate or out-of-date personal information we hold about you.
On some of our services, you can do this by visiting your account settings pages where you can access and update a range of information about your account. You must be signed in to access this feature. Alternatively, where this feature is not available, you can contact us directly.
You may also request that we delete personal information we hold about you.
If you have given consent for your information to be used for certain purposes, such as informing you of related services and offers that may be of interest to you, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
To make requests, or if you have any other question regarding our privacy practices, please contact us at bip@bipsolutions.com.
We may reject requests that are unreasonable or not required by law, including those that would be extremely impractical, could require disproportionate technical effort, or could expose us to operational risks such as fraud. We may retain information as required or permitted by applicable laws and regulations, including to honour your choices, for our billing or records purposes and to fulfil the purposes described in this privacy policy.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us and we will investigate the matter.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data in a manner that is not in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

Contacting us

If you need to contact us for any reason, whether to get assistance with your account and service or to discuss any aspect of this data privacy policy or our use of your personal information for example, please contact us by email at bip@bipsolutions.com. Alternatively, you can write to us at BiP Solutions, Medius, 60 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DZ.
Please note that if you contact us to assist you, for your safety and ours we may need to authenticate your identity before fulfilling your request.

Other Websites

Our websites may contain links to websites belonging to other organisations. This privacy policy only applies to our websites, so when you link to other websites you should read their privacy policies and terms and conditions. We cannot accept responsibility for your use of these websites.

Cookies

What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files containing alphanumeric identifiers commonly transferred to and stored on your device when you browse and use websites and online services. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and assist with service or advertising personalization.

Why does BiP use cookies?
We use cookies for various reasons. For example, we use cookies to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide personalised information. We also use cookies to make it easy to access our services by remembering you when you return, to provide and analyse our services, to learn more about our users and how they use the service, and to deliver and tailor marketing or advertising. We want you to be informed about our use of these technologies, so this notice explains the types of technologies we use, what they do and your choices regarding their use.

What cookies do we use?

We may use the following types of cookies:

Essential cookies:These cookies are strictly necessary to provide our website or online service. For example, we or our Service Providers may use these cookies to authenticate and identify our members when they use our websites and applications so we can provide our service to them. They also help us to enforce our Terms of Use, prevent fraud and maintain the security of our service.
Our website sets a cookie that stores a unique identifier for your session:
Name: _signon or JSESSIONID
Typical content: randomly generated alpha-numeric value
Expires: After 4 hours of user inactivity or upon closing the browser

Our website sets a cookie that stores your username if you set remember me to true to keep you signed in to your computer:
Name: username
Typical content: username of user who has signed on
Expires: 1 month after sign in

Our website sets a cookie that stores an encrtyped security string if you set remember me to true to keep you signed in to your computer securely:
Name: ACEGI_SECURITY_HASHED_REMEMBER_ME_COOKIE
Typical content: encrypted security ID string
Expires: Immediately

Cookies for improving services: These cookies are not essential, but help us to personalize and enhance your user experience. For example, they help us to remember your preferences and prevent you from needing to re-enter information you previously provided (for example, during member sign up). We also use these cookies to collect information (such as popular pages, site usage patterns, click-through and other information) about our visitors' use of the service so that we can enhance and personalize the service. Deletion of these types of cookies may result in limited functionality of our service.

Our website uses Google Analytics cookies to help us accurately trend user activity and page requests. This ensures that the service offers the most user-friendly journey through the application:

Name: __utma
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser

Name: __utmb
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser

Name: __utmc
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser

Name: __utmd
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
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How can I exercise choice regarding cookies and other types of online tracking?

The help menu on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of our website features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off any logged-in service when you finish using a shared computer.

Does BiP use other technologies?

We sometimes use other technologies similar to cookies, such as browser storage and plugins (e.g. HTML5 and WebSQL). Like cookies, some of these technologies may store small amounts of data on your device. We may use these and various other technologies for similar purposes as cookies, such as to enforce our terms, prevent fraud, and analyse the use of our service. There are a number of ways to exercise choice regarding these technologies. For example, many popular browsers provide the ability to clear browser storage, commonly in the settings or preferences area - see your browser's help function or support area to learn more.

Changes to this privacy policy

We will update this privacy policy from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory or operational requirements. Your continued use of the service after any such updates take effect will constitute acceptance of those changes. If there is a material change that could have a detrimental effect on you, we will notify you by placing a prominent announcement on our web pages. If you do not wish to accept updates to this privacy policy, you may cancel your use of the service in accordance with our terms and conditions and of course exercise your rights under privacy law as noted above.

This privacy policy was last updated on: 7 August 2018 version 7.0

CPV codes are a system of classification for public procurement which uses standardised vocabulary to help procurement personnel classify their contract notices consistently and to make it easier for suppliers and contracting authorities to find notices.

CPV stands for Common Procurement Vocabulary and the system was developed by the European Union as a tool to improve transparency and efficiency in public procurement. Using a standardised coding format also makes it easier to facilitate the processing of tenders published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). The use of CPVs has been mandatory in the European Union since 1 February 2006.

The CPV system consists of a main vocabulary, which defines the type of contract; and a supplementary vocabulary, which adds further qualitative information about the contract. The main vocabulary is made up of approximately 9450 terms, listing goods, works and services which are commonly used in procurement.