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title: "Blackdown Education Partnership MFD"
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# Blackdown Education Partnership MFD

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blackdown-education-partnership-mfd-ocds-h6vhtk-04bda1). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** BLACKDOWN EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: "Blackdown Education Partnership MFD". Published status: active. Published Value: £2,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 20 Dec 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [BLACKDOWN EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/blackdown-education-partnership-coh-07338835)
- **Published Value:** £2,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 20 December 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Printing and related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blackdown-education-partnership-mfd-ocds-h6vhtk-04bda1#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04bda1`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blackdown-education-partnership-mfd-ocds-h6vhtk-04bda1#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost.co.uk%2Fplacegroup%2Faspx%2FHome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blackdown-education-partnership-mfd-ocds-h6vhtk-04bda1#participate

## Description
The Authority are tendering for the outsourced provision to supply services and goods to their schools in respect of a range of Multi-Functional Devices (MFD's).  The provision or paper is not a requirement of is contract and the Trust will source this themselves. The Authority’s Management Information System is currently Bromcom but is currently being tendered for. The operating system is Windows 10/11.  PIN codes and cards are sometimes used to enable printing, copying, or scanning and the Authority use Printix Print Management. Printix is managed by the Authority and software is not required to be supported by the successful Bidder.The MFDs, at least, must be compatible with installing Printix and the contract must allow us to do so. The Authority has several machine types currently supplied by a range of suppliers and all with differing lease agreement dates, as per Attachment 1 (subject to updates and changes). More details will be provided with the tender documents to successf

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79800000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Estimated Value:** £2,500,000
- **Description:** The Authority are tendering for the outsourced provision to supply services and goods to their schools in respect of a range of Multi-Functional Devices (MFD's).  The provision of paper is not a requirement of this contract and the Trust will source ...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F037663-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-11-21T14:01:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T19:07:53.237Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04bda1