Published date: 24 January 2018

Last edited date: 24 January 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 16 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Reprographic services - 79520000

  • Typesetting services - 79822300

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£255,000

Procurement reference

1532

Published date

24 January 2018

Closing date

16 February 2018

Contract start date

29 March 2018

Contract end date

29 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

NS&I has a requirement for a service provider to provided reprographic and typesetting services to include the provision of the following:

a) Provide typesetting and reprographic services for production and revision of new/existing brochures, leaflets, reports, and other printed material.
b) Offer proof-reading services.
c) Supply print-ready artwork in specified format and liaise where necessary with print buyers and printers;
d) Provide expertise and advice in achieving brand colour match in different print media
e) Offer short run print services, including for brochures, leaflets and exhibition collateral.
f) Create fully accessible pdf's for use with screen readers software and tagging
g) Deliver outsized printed material
h) Securely store all original artwork handed over by agency, and recover when required
i) Ensure easy communications of large files by providing access to a FTP site.
j) Transfer heritage assets into digital format eg high res quality scanning/ photography and moving image transfer.

More information

Links

Additional text

All tender documents are available at the NS&I e-procurement portal: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=NSANDI
under the reference Quote/tender 30451 - 1532-typesetting &reprographic

All tender communications regarding the tender should be sent via the NS&I portal: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=NSANDI , communication received on email will not be responded.

UPDATE: This tender should be published on the NS&I portal by 26th January 2018. If the tender is not viewable before this date please be patient.

About the buyer

Address

1 Drummond Gate
London
SW1V 2QX
England

Email

kaya.rajan@nsandi.com