Published date: 24 July 2015

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


Closing: 4 November 2014

Contract summary

Industry

  • Printing services - 79810000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £47,930,000

Procurement reference

UI_DWP_100922

Published date

24 July 2015

Closing date

4 November 2014

Contract start date

22 April 2015

Contract end date

21 April 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The procurement for this service was conducted by Crown Commercial Services on behalf of DWP and managed electronically via HM Revenue & Customs e-Sourcing Suite.

The contract will cover the large scale transactional bulk printing, mail sorting, and presentation for distribution into the postal network of DWP customer letters and internal reports, together with collation and insertion into the envelopes of associated leaflets or other printed information to contracting authority customers. There will be a requirement for the supplier to work closely with the contracting authorities in order to transform their communications to customers via a variety of media utilising both hard copy and digital. The contract covers both mainland UK and Northern Ireland.

Operation covers: - The extraction and manipulation of customer specific data, generated from front line operational processing systems. - Printing of software application generated documents specifically in line with operational business rules i.e. customer notifications - Enveloping of printed outputs together with inclusions specified by the software application i.e. inserts, reply envelopes- Mail sorting of sealed envelopes and despatch preparation ready for collection by one or more postal carriers (postal channels are out of scope of this contractual arrangement and covered under the Mail and Office Services contract). - A small percentage of insert printing primarily for customers living in Northern Ireland.

Exact specification included in the Invitation to Tender suite of documentation. DWP reserved the right to undertake E-auction but decided not too for this procurement.

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

22 April 2015

Contract start date

22 April 2015

Contract end date

21 April 2020

Total value of contract

£47,930,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Williams Lea Limited

Address

29 St John's Lane
London
EC1M 4NA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Print Team (Commercial)

Address

301 Bridgewater Place
Warrington
WA3 6XF
England

Email

ITTP.PRINT@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK