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Invitation to Tender for Electoral Printing & Postage

Buyer: South Ribble Borough Council →

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BuyerSouth Ribble Borough Council
StatusClosed
Deadline3 Aug 2026
Value£300,000
Published29 Jun 2026

What is being bought

This contract is for delivery of print services for elections and electoral registration within Chorley and South Ribble councils. The contract will commence January 1st 2027 for an initial 2-year period, with the potential to extend for a further 12 months until December 31st 2029. The contract is to cover print products during the contract period in relation to: - a) electoral registration; including the annual electoral registration canvass and specified elements of business-as-usual year-round, and b) all scheduled and unscheduled elections, in each local authority area.

Delivery location

UKD45, GB · UKD47, GB

Categories

Electoral forms 22821000Printing services 79810000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£300,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2027 to 31 Dec 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (60%)
Social Value (15%)
Commercial (25%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Electoral forms, Printing servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 22. The category anchor is Electoral forms (22821000); 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 225203 median · 20.7 average (218 of 520 with a bid count)3.9 average (237 of 520 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD450Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)393 median · 3 average (2 of 39 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 39 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 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-06bf61
Latest release ID060877-2026
Latest release timestampMon Jun 29 2026 14:52:52 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060877-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-08-03T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-07-27T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-09-07T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsThis tender can be found at: https://www.the-chest.org.uk/ under reference: DN820604.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£300,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
29 Jun 2026tender060877-2026

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)
29 Jun 2026 · 060877-2026 · tender
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