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AwardedFind a Tender · award
BuyerUniversity Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published3 Jun 2026

What is being bought

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract for the provision of postal services, including the collection, processing, and delivery of internal and external mail across Trust sites.<br/><br/>The service supports critical operational and clinical functions by ensuring timely and secure handling of correspondence, parcels, and associated mailroom activities.<br/><br/>This contract has been awarded following a Direct Award process, whereby the incumbent provider has demonstrated the capability and capacity to continue delivering the required services to the necessary standard, with no significant change to the service model.<br/><br/>The contract represents a continuation of an existing service and has been awarded to the existing provider.<br/><br/>The total estimated value of the contract is £366K over the contract term, with service delivery commencing on 1st June 2026 and ending on 31st May 2027, with an optional extension of 12 months.

Delivery location

UKD44

Categories

Post and courier services 64100000

Lot details

Lot 1

Collection and Delivery of Letters, Large Letters and Parcels across all University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust sites.<br/>Awarded under Government Commercial Agency Framework RM6280 - Postal Services & Solutions.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 64. The category anchor is Post and courier services (64100000); 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 645511 median · 20.4 average (105 of 551 with a bid count)2.3 average (132 of 551 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD441Not 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 rationaleUniversity Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract for the provision of postal services, including the collection, processing, and delivery of internal and external mail across Trust sites.<br/><br/>The service supports the Trust’s operational and clinical functions by ensuring timely, secure, and efficient handling of correspondence, parcels, and associated mailroom activities.<br/><br/>This contract has been awarded via a direct award under the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Framework RM6280, in accordance with AD1.3.1, where the incumbent provider has been identified as capable of continuing to deliver the required services to the necessary standard.<br/><br/>The contract represents a continuation of an existing service and has been awarded to the current incumbent provider, with no material change to the service model.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
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

052445-2026-1

Statusactive

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-06acae
Latest release ID052445-2026
Latest release timestampWed Jun 03 2026 14:20:22 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
3 Jun 2026award, contract052445-2026

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)
3 Jun 2026 · 052445-2026 · award, contract
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