Contracts Finder notice
Courier Services DHL
Authority: OPEN UNIVERSITY(THE)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionInternational, and some domestic, courier services to ensure student material reaches our students where Royal Mail and Yodel services are not appropriate. Also courier services for the wider OU where required.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- OUPA11618
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- No
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
United Kingdom; Isle of Man; Guernsey; Jersey; Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; Turks and Caicos Islands; Albania; Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Montenegro; Netherlands; North Macedonia; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Afghanistan; Algeria; American Samoa; Andorra; Angola; Antarctica; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Aruba; Australia; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belize; Benin; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bouvet Island; Brazil; Brunei; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Chad; Chile; China; Christmas Island; Clipperton; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo (Democratic Republic); Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; East Timor; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Eswatini; Ethiopia; Faroe Islands; Fiji; French Polynesia; French Southern Territories; Gabon; Georgia; Ghana; Greenland; Grenada; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Heard Island and McDonald Islands; Honduras; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Ivory Coast; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kiribati; Kosovo; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Macao; Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia; Moldova; Monaco; Mongolia; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar (Burma); Namibia; Nauru; Nepal; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; Niue; Norfolk Island; North Korea; Northern Mariana Islands; Occupied Palestinian Territories; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Russia; Rwanda; Saint Barthélemy; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Samoa; San Marino; Sao Tome and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; South Korea; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; St Kitts and Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent; Sudan; Suriname; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Syria; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; The Bahamas; The Gambia; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United States; United States Minor Outlying Islands; United States Virgin Islands; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Vatican City; Venezuela; Vietnam; Wallis and Futuna; Western Sahara; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision5 Oct 2026
- Contract starts5 Oct 2026
- Notice published13 Oct 2026
- Contract ends10 Jan 2028
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- OPEN UNIVERSITY(THE)Contracting authority
- Identifier
- sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/3TQF8m8D · GB-SRS
Suppliers named on the notice
- DHL INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITEDSupplier
- Identifier
- 01184988 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-9b75f168-26fe-41d2-8700-3148a36285c1-2026-10-13T12:05:04+01:00
- Published
- 13 Oct 2026
- Latest update
- 13 Oct 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-9b75f168-26fe-41d2-8700-3148a36285c1
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-9b75f168-26fe-41d2-8700-3148a36285c1-1