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ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa"
title: "Legalisation Office International and Domestic courier services"
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# Legalisation Office International and Domestic courier services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/legalisation-office-international-and-domestic-courier-services-ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: "Legalisation Office International and Domestic courier services". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £2,100,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office-gov-d1315)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £2,100,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Mail delivery services, Parcel delivery services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/legalisation-office-international-and-domestic-courier-services-ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/legalisation-office-international-and-domestic-courier-services-ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa#tl-md)

## Description
The Contracting Authority’s Public-facing Services department (PFS) constitutes several teams offering services directly to the public, two of which, Legalisation Services (LS) and Overseas Public Services (OPS), return documents to the public via courier/post. 
The Legalisation Office is the only UK Authority with the power to provide a service to legalise a document for use overseas. In excess of 500,000 documents are legalised annually, servicing the needs of hundreds of thousands of private and business customers from the UK and overseas (global delivery regions). 
The Contracting Authority requires the provision of these courier services.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 64121100, 64121200
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/02/2028 to 31/01/2033
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F027010-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-05-23T15:53:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T03:09:37.854Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa