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Digital Post

Buyer: Kent County Council →

BuyerKent County Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published8 Jan 2026

What is being bought

Kent County Council have awarded a contract to PSL Print Management for CN240205 - Digital Post. Digital Post is a Software as a Service (SaaS) based Digital Post / Mailroom Solution which automates the acceptance, classification, printing, enveloping and distribution of outgoing mail through a mail delivery partner. This procurement was undertaken via Crown Commercial Services Framework - RM6280 - Postal Services & Solutions. The initial term of the contract is 2 years, with an additional 2 year extension option available.

Delivery location

UKJ4

Categories

Printed matter and related products 22000000Printing and related services 79800000

Lot details

Lot 1

Kent County Council have awarded a contract to PSL Print Management for CN240205 - Digital Post. Digital Post is a Software as a Service (SaaS) based Digital Post / Mailroom Solution which automates the acceptance, classification, printing, enveloping and distribution of outgoing mail through a mail delivery partner. This procurement was undertaken via Crown Commercial Services Framework - RM6280 - Postal Services & Solutions. The initial term of the contract is 2 years, with an additional 2 year extension option available.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 40
Presentation — 30
price — 30

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Printed matter and related productsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 22. The category anchor is Printed matter and related products (22000000); 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 223373 median · 14.5 average (112 of 337 with a bid count)3.6 average (125 of 337 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ429 median · 9 average (1 of 2 with a bid count)3 average (1 of 2 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 rationaleThe procurement was undertaken via a Crown Commercial Services framework, RM6280 - Postal Services & Solutions. As such, no publication was required because it was a mini competition via an existing framework agreement.
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

001408-2026-1

Statusactive
Value£910,000

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-0601c1
Latest release ID001408-2026
Latest release timestampThu Jan 08 2026 11:45:25 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
8 Jan 2026award, contract001408-2026

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)
8 Jan 2026 · 001408-2026 · award, contract
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