Official UK procurement notice
DESIGN AND PRINT · UK public procurement notice
Authority: London Borough of Waltham Forest (Local council)
The design and print service contract for London Borough of Waltham Forest ensures that the Council can access the best print prices available in an ever changing and extremely competitive marketplace but also helps to facilitate a reduction in overall spend and the Council’s channel shift to cheaper communications channels. The design and print service contract is managed by Corporate Communications Service on behalf of the Council. The current contract is provided in two lots, and this is required in the new contract: Published lot titles: Lot 1 DESIGN AND PRINT; Lot 2 : REPROGRAPHICS.
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe design and print service contract for London Borough of Waltham Forest ensures that the Council can access the best print prices available in an ever changing and extremely competitive marketplace but also helps to facilitate a reduction in overall spend and the Council’s channel shift to cheaper communications channels. The design and print service contract is managed by Corporate Communications Service on behalf of the Council. The services are made accessible to all team across the directorates. A procured provider offers a streamlined process, brand management, consistent quality, and cost efficiency The contract provides design services from high end concept design to basic art-working. This is achieved by working with both the corporate communications team and officers within directorates who self-serve for art-working and print requirements. The current contract is provided in two lots, and this is required in the new contract:
- Lot 1: Design and print – This consist of art working, design, concept work and print services.
- Lot 2: Reprographic. The Repro lot is for print documents which require short turnaround delivery (such as any legal documents), with the expectation of delivery within two hours.
- No preliminary market engagement: Not applicable
CPV: Printing and related services
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Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value (£1,131,309 together) · a supplier may bid for at most 1 and win at most 1 of them · same conditions of participation on every lot · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1DESIGN AND PRINTRenewalPublished value£902,707
All design jobs from high end concept design to basic artworking (application of an existing design concept) and layout, leaflets, for (but not limited to) posters, banners, promotional signage, brochures, general marketing literature and signage.
- Economic & financial standing
Details are specified in the ITT document
- Technical & professional ability
Details are specified in the ITT document
Lot #2REPROGRAPHICSRenewalPublished value£228,603
Reprographic print items will include, but shall not be limited to: court bundles, commercial contracts; scanning of documents and personnel documents and bundles
- Economic & financial standing
Details are specified in the ITT document
- Technical & professional ability
Details are specified in the ITT document
What it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
Published award criteria (2)
- Price
- Quality
- Economic & financial standing
Details are specified in the ITT document
- Technical & professional ability
Details are specified in the ITT document
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:18 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:18 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
DN830866- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092482- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077dd4Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
Details are specified in the ITT document
- Risks
Details are specified in the ITT document
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
30 Sept 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published45 days ago30 Sept 2026, 15:18 BST
- Clarification questions by25 days ago20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline15 days ago30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Award decision expected byin 46 days30 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 78 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published30 Sept 2026, 15:18 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=358b320c-b0bc-f111-813c-005056b64545&fromProjectDashboard=True
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender