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Courier Services

Buyer: Cambridge City Council →

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BuyerCambridge City Council
StatusClosed
Deadline2 Mar 2026
Value£12,000
Published16 Feb 2026

What is being bought

Cambridge City Council requires qualified suppliers to provide courier services for the collection and secure delivery of council mail from the Royal Mail sorting office to designated council site/sites. Service Requirements The successful supplier will be required to: • Collect mail daily from Royal Mail Sorting Office - Clifton Road, Cambridge CB1 7QQ • Deliver securely to Mandela House, Via Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EL • Provide secure handling in compliance with UK GDPR • Maintain chain of custody documentation • Ensure contingency arrangements for missed or delayed collections • Handle parcels and oversized mail as required Frequency • Days of operation: Monday to Friday excluding public/bank holidays • Collection time window: From 8.00am when sorting office opens • Delivery deadline: 9.30am Staff Requirements • Staff must be identity‑checked • Staff must wear uniform/ID • Staff must be trained in data protection and secure handling Service Levels (KPIs / SLAs) • On‑time delivery rate: 98% • On -time delivery rate 100% during elections - dates will be communicated • Incident reporting timeframe: 4 hours Data Protection The supplier must comply with: • Data Protection Act 2018 • UK GDPR • Council information security policies Insurance • Employers' Liability: £1m • Public Liability: £1m Authorisation to Collect from Royal Mail Supplier must secure all necessary permissions for third‑party collection. The contract duration will be 24 months, with an option to extend for an additional 12 months subject to the agreement of both parties.

Delivery location

UKH12, GB

Categories

Post and courier services 64100000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£12,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Post and courier servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 64. The category anchor is Post and courier services (64100000); 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 645471 median · 20.2 average (106 of 547 with a bid count)2.3 average (132 of 547 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH121Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)111Not publishedNot publishedNot 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 rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
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.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-065532
Latest release ID013958-2026
Latest release timestampMon Feb 16 2026 15:39:38 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013958-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-03-02T12:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-02-26T12:00:00Z
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://procontract.due-north.com/Home/About
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£12,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
16 Feb 2026tender013958-2026

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
16 Feb 2026 · 013958-2026 · tender
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