Print Management Services
A Contract Award Notice
by THE MINISTER FOR THE CABINET OFFICE ACTING THROUGH CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Framework (Services)
- Duration
- 4 year (est.)
- Value
- £420M
- Sector
- BUSINESS
- Published
- 11 Jan 2021
- Delivery
- To 03 Aug 2025 (est.)
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Liverpool
1 buyer
7 suppliers
- HH Associates Surrey
- Allied Publicity Services Manchester Cheadle Heath
- Corporate Document Services Leeds
- Cubiquity Wolverhampton
- Harlow Printing Tyne and Wear
- PSL Print Management Lancashire
- Williams Lea London
Description
Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, have put in place an agreement for the provision of print management services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies. The agreement includes print products and all associated services to provide an end to end print management service.
Lot Division
| 1 | Print Management Services, including strategic and transformational Services Lot 1 Print Management Services, including strategic and transformational services, this is a single Supplier Lot and Buyers will access Lot 1 via a direct award Call-Off Procedure. |
| 2 | Print Management Services Lot 2 is designed for Buyers who require the support of a print manager to enable them to take advantage of the end to end services that this approach offers, thereby ensuring that their print needs are fully managed on their behalf. The Buyers who use Lot 2 will be a broad range of public sector organisations who range in both size and complexity with regard to their print requirements. The Supplier shall be flexible in their approach to manage the provision of both low value to high value Call-Off Contracts requirements. Lot 2 - Is a multi-Supplier Lot and Buyers will access Lot 2 via further competition. |
Award Detail
| 1 | HH Associates (Surrey)
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| 2 | Allied Publicity Services Manchester (Cheadle Heath)
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| 3 | Corporate Document Services (Leeds)
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| 4 | Cubiquity (Wolverhampton)
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| 5 | Harlow Printing (Tyne and Wear)
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| 6 | PSL Print Management (Lancashire)
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| 7 | Williams Lea (London)
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Award Criteria
| Quality | 80.0 |
| PRICE | 20.0 |
CPV Codes
- 79800000 - Printing and related services
- 22450000 - Security-type printed matter
- 63121000 - Storage and retrieval services
- 63122000 - Warehousing services
- 64216120 - Electronic mail services
- 79810000 - Printing services
- 79821000 - Print finishing services
- 79970000 - Publishing services
Indicators
- Award on basis of price.
Legal Justification
The Print Management Service procurement (RM6170) was originally planned to go to market 02/06/20 with an award approval date of 01/12/20. Due to the COVID19 pandemic there were a number of delays leading up to us publishing the procurement and our ability to prepare the documentation. CCS engagement with suppliers evidenced that they faced business disruption, including disruption of resources. There was a risk that due to COVID-19 the market would not be settled enough to participate in a tender exercise for a long-term agreement that requires suppliers to develop, prepare and issue a tender response when staff numbers have been reduced, increasing the risk of the OJEU result providing poor quality responses or a reduced number of bidders. Our ability to engage customers who were able to act as evaluators was reduced due to the pandemic. We have started to see some movement on customer re-engagement in June/July and have been able to identify evaluators. In addition to the above CCS
Other Information
As part of this Contract Notice the following documents can be accessed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e9c41b5d-0b92-4bca-9808-196733... 1) Redacted Commercial Agreement 2) Authorised customer list; The start date of this Framework Agreement is 28/12/2020. The expiry date of the Framework Agreement is 27/12/2024. The Framework Agreement will be established for 4 years, with no option to extend.
Reference
- FTS 000545-2021