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Bulk Print Services

Buyer: Birmingham City Council →

BuyerBirmingham City Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published4 Feb 2026

What is being bought

The printing, collation and despatch of documentation and letters from critical applications such as Finance, Payroll, Housing, Council Tax and Revenue and Benefits systems

Delivery location

UKG

Categories

Miscellaneous business and business-related services 79900000

Lot details

Lot 1

The printing, collation and despatch of documentation and letters from critical applications such as Finance, Payroll, Housing, Council Tax and Revenue and Benefits systems. This is a call off under Commercial Services the trading function of Kent County Council FRAMEWORK Y20023

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Miscellaneous business and business-related services (79900000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 798,6544 median · 34.8 average (3,339 of 8,654 with a bid count)3.2 average (3,753 of 8,654 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKG4192 median · 34.6 average (148 of 419 with a bid count)4.1 average (171 of 419 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleThis is a call off under Commercial Services the trading function of Kent County Council FRAMEWORK Y20023 therefore prior publication is not required.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

010003-2026-1

Statusactive
Value£1,220,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-064702
Latest release ID010003-2026
Latest release timestampWed Feb 04 2026 13:47:04 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
4 Feb 2026award, contract010003-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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    },
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      "dateSigned": "2026-01-30T00:00:00Z"
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}
Complete JSON history (1 releases)
4 Feb 2026 · 010003-2026 · award, contract
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