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Pre Market Engagement - Election Printing Services – Poll Cards, Ballot Papers, Postal Packs and Associated Documents

Buyer: East Lindsey District Council →

BuyerEast Lindsey District Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published2 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Pre Market Engagement The contracting authority is seeking to engage with potential suppliers to inform the development of a forthcoming Invitation to Tender (ITT) for election printing services. This includes the printing and delivery of poll cards and ballot papers in accordance with statutory requirements. This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) is conducted in line with the Procurement Act 2023 to ensure transparency, fairness, and value for money.

Delivery location

UKF3, GB

Categories

Printing services 79810000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 1 Jan 2030

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Printing servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Printing services (79810000); 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 797,6314 median · 33.2 average (2,817 of 7,631 with a bid count)3.2 average (3,178 of 7,631 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKF31517 median · 35.2 average (6 of 15 with a bid count)13 average (7 of 15 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 policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
To respond to this interested suppliers must first register on the PSPS electronic tendering portal http://in-tendhost.co.uk/pspslprocurement/aspx/Home From here you will be able respond via the messaging system.engagement23 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-05a6bc
Latest release ID061695-2025
Latest release timestampThu Oct 02 2025 12:04:23 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 thresholdNot published
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 valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
2 Oct 2025planningUpdate061695-2025
2 Oct 2025planning061694-2025

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 (2 releases)
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2 Oct 2025 · 061694-2025 · planning
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