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Future Provision of  Mail Services

Buyer: The Council of the City of Wakefield →

BuyerThe Council of the City of Wakefield
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£2,000,000
Published16 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Thank you for expressing an interest in participating in Wakefield Council's market engagement exercise. We are currently exploring options for the future provision of mail services, and we are seeking input from suppliers to help us better understand market capabilities, refine our requirements, and inform our procurement strategy. To support this, we have prepared two separate questionnaires: Inbound Mail - Market Engagement Outbound Mail - Market Engagement. If your organisation is able to provide both services, we kindly ask that you complete both questionnaires. If you specialise in only one area, please complete the relevant questionnaire accordingly. Your responses will help us: Understand the range of service delivery models available. Explore pricing structures and indicative costs. Identify potential innovations and value-added options. Assess key risks, constraints, and delivery considerations. Please note that the contract value and term are currently undefined or subject to change; therefore, the estimated figures provided below should be treated as indicative only and not relied upon as final.

Categories

Postal and telecommunications services 64000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 31 Oct 2026 to 30 Oct 2030

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Postal and telecommunications servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 64. The category anchor is Postal and telecommunications services (64000000); 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 648502 median · 16.7 average (227 of 850 with a bid count)2.4 average (272 of 850 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)39Not 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 policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Please view all documentation attached to the project on Yortender here - https://yortender.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/98168/0/0?returnUrl=ctm/Supplier/publictenders&b=YORTENDER Please read through all documentation carefully and return any responses via the portal as explained within 'Market Engagement - Guidance Document'.engagement7 Oct 2025scheduled

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-059ba3
Latest release ID057111-2025
Latest release timestampTue Sep 16 2025 16:36:31 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
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 value£2,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
16 Sept 2025planningUpdate057111-2025
16 Sept 2025planningUpdate057087-2025
16 Sept 2025planningUpdate057085-2025
16 Sept 2025planning057080-2025

All source data

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

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