Official UK procurement notice
DESIGN AND PRINT — UK public procurement notice
Authority: London Borough of Waltham Forest (Local council)
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
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 #1Lot 1 DESIGN AND PRINTRenewalPublished value£902,707
- Value
- £902,707 exc. VAT · £1,083,248 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Details are specified in the ITT document
Lot #2Lot 2 : REPROGRAPHICSRenewalPublished value£228,603
- Value
- £228,603 exc. VAT · £274,323 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Details are specified in the ITT document
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Economic & financial standingDetails are specified in the ITT document
- Technical & professional abilityDetails are specified in the ITT document
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How London Borough of Waltham Forest buys Printing and related services (CPV 7980) — and who usually turns up
London Borough of Waltham Forest’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Printing and related services (CPV 7980) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
London Borough of Waltham Forest
contract notices in 36 months: 4 in division 79 (1 route not published) · 116 in all categories (5 without competition · 50 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 11 lots. 5 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 6 from older notices (bids received, middle 2.5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 11 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 6 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 8 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 147 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 79), last 36 months: 3 notices.
Greater London · Printing and related services (CPV 7980)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 17 in CPV 7980 (12 competed, 2 route not published) · 949 in division 79 (630 competed, 163 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7980), last 36 months: 8 lots. 4 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3.5) and 4 from older notices (bids received, middle 5.5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7980), last 36 months: 8 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7980), last 36 months: 3 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7980), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7980), last 36 months: 5 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7980), last 36 months: 15 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- 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, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
DN830866- 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 to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender 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
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed30 Sept 2026, 15:18 BST
- Clarification questions byin 20 days20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 30 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 91 days30 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 123 days1 Feb 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
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 (3)
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
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender