Published date: 29 May 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 29 January 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Courier services - 64120000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£5,000,000

Procurement reference

RD1000593

Published date

29 May 2018

Closing date

29 January 2016

Contract start date

1 March 2016

Contract end date

31 August 2016

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This contract covers all aspects of delivery for the Standards and Testing Agency's General Qualifications Yellow Label Service. The "Yellow Label service" is a logistics service provided by STA to examination centres in England administering GCSE, GCE, BTEC, Functional Skills and similar approved qualifications. The service covers the collection of packages of completed examination scripts from the centres and their delivery to either scanning bureaus or residential markers as directed by Awarding Organisations, who are responsible for organising the marking of the scripts.

The service aims to minimise the risk of lost packages, reduce the administrative burden on exams officers, and provide value for money. Activity is focused on set examinations series with the Joint Council for Qualifications setting the timetable for GCSE and GCE series, and the Awarding Organisations determining other series. The service handles approximately 800,000 packages each academic year with the majority processed during the summer examinations series running from May to July.

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Award information

Awarded date

17 February 2016

Contract start date

1 March 2016

Contract end date

31 August 2016

Total value of contract

£5,000,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Parcelforce Worldwide

Address

30 Central Avenue
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP3 9SL
GB

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

53-55 Butts Road, Earlsdon Park,
Coventry,
CV1 3BH
England

Email

jonathan.bryan@education.gov.uk