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Market Engagement for Cornwall Council's Electoral Print Services

Buyer: Cornwall Council →

BuyerCornwall Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£1,700,000
Published6 Aug 2025

What is being bought

Cornwall Council is seeking tenders for all electoral registration and elections printing. The objective is to utilise a fit-for-purpose electoral registration and elections printing service solution to centralise printing activity, where cost-effective, and to achieve operational efficiencies within the electoral services team.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Printed matter and related products 22000000Postal and telecommunications services 64000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 10 Feb 2026 to 9 Feb 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Printed matter and related products, Postal and telecommunications servicesNot 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 223073 median · 15.8 average (95 of 307 with a bid count)3.7 average (107 of 307 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK9013 median · 39.5 average (17 of 90 with a bid count)8.1 average (20 of 90 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)19Not 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
General market engagementengagement19 Aug 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-05825a
Latest release ID046469-2025
Latest release timestampWed Aug 06 2025 11:04:57 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£1,700,000
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
6 Aug 2025planning046469-2025

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)
6 Aug 2025 · 046469-2025 · planning
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