Why Supplier Registration with Bloom Matters
Bloom offers your business access to a credible, fully compliant marketplace, providing an end-to-end managed route to becoming a public sector supplier. Through the NEPRO³ supplier management framework, you can find a wide range of supplier opportunities, making it easier for SMEs, local providers, and VCSEs to compete for contracts on equal terms.
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Your Benefits as a Bloom Supplier
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Speed
Our pre-qualified frameworks accelerate the route to market and can award contracts for direct awards and mini competitions in as little as 13 and 24 days respectively, all while remaining fully compliant.
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Free Accreditation
We believe in a transparent process and rates. Becoming an accredited supplier is simple and free. Suppliers are only charged a 5% management fee on services delivered.
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Social Value
Bloom’s outcome-based approach ties supplier delivery to real community impact. We require suppliers to meet specific standards around fair work practices and environmental sustainability, ensuring social value in how we operate, not just what we deliver.
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Choice
Our diverse and versatile framework includes 20 categories and over 380 subcategories, improving the chances for suppliers with specialist expertise to find projects aligned with their strengths.
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Vendor Neutral
Each accredited supplier is treated equally, ensuring genuine opportunities and a level playing field for all suppliers, irrespective of size.
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Managed Service
We provide full supplier relationship management in procurement, simplifying a complex process and steering projects towards success.
Read Bloom’s latest reports on supplier growth and social value to learn more about the benefits of becoming a Bloom supplier.
Who Can Join Our Supplier Network
Bloom’s supplier network is open to large consultancies, as well as SMEs and smaller specialist providers of professional services looking to supply to the UK Government across a wide range of categories. Our public sector clients include the NHS, schools, universities and academies, Housing Associations, and blue light and emergency services. This diversity of buyers across several sectors helps suppliers reach clients requiring specialist professional services.
If you provide high-quality professional services and can deliver measurable outcomes, join our supplier network and compete for opportunities nationwide.
How to Get Started in 3 Easy Steps
Suppliers can get started with Bloom quickly and easily. The process to join the public sector procurement framework is designed to be straightforward, transparent, and fully compliant. Through Bloom’s NEPRO³ framework, suppliers can offer their services faster.
Here’s how it works:
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Step 1
Submit a simple expression of interest through Bloom’s website. This captures basic information about your organisation, expertise, and the professional services you offer.
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Step 2
Complete the supplier onboarding questionnaire, which will allow you to be considered for work across all participating public-sector bodies. Our team will confirm whether the process is complete or request additional information within five working days.
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Step 3
Once approved, you can begin to respond to published direct award opportunities or mini-competitions.
For Suppliers
What We Look for in Our Suppliers
Bloom expects the suppliers we work with to meet rigorous compliance standards to ensure their services align with public-sector expectations. Suppliers must demonstrate strong ESG practices, robust governance, and a clear commitment to social value.
Buyers need confidence in your ability to deliver complex outcomes and require demonstrable expertise across relevant professional service categories, such as consultancy, IT, digital, and transformation, among others.
Suppliers must balance value for money with measurable impact by offering competitive pricing and high-quality delivery of innovative and outcome-focused services.
Through Bloom’s approach to supplier procurement management, sourcing, and supplier management, accredited suppliers can rely on a fair process for public-sector opportunities.
Read our Case Studies for supplier success stories.
Frequently asked questions
View all FAQsSuppliers begin with a simple online registration form that typically takes under an hour to complete. Bloom’s structured accreditation process includes confirming that you meet our compliance standards. Once accredited, you can be considered for opportunities through Bloom’s framework immediately. This streamlined approach to supplier management procurement speeds up access to public-sector work.
No. Bloom’s one-time accreditation replaces multiple PQQs, reducing the amount of paperwork required to prove you meet public-sector standards. Our efficient model improves vendor management in procurement by ensuring every supplier is vetted consistently and fairly.
There is no fee for suppliers to register or become accredited. Suppliers pay a standard 5% fee only when work is awarded. We believe this keeps the process financially accessible, especially for SMEs.
Once accredited, you can access opportunities from dozens of public-sector organisations across central government, local authorities, NHS bodies, emergency services, and more. All through our framework.
Yes. Bloom operates a vendor-neutral model to allow SMEs, VCSEs, and specialist providers to compete on a level playing field. To support fair access, opportunities are awarded based on capability, prior outcomes, and the value they offer.
Ready to Join? Let’s Get You Registered
Take the first step to become a public sector supplier and unlock access to a wide range of buyers looking for your expertise. Bloom’s streamlined process makes it easy to register as a supplier in the UK and start competing for opportunities quickly and fully compliant with the Procurement Act.
Register now via the supplier sign-up page.