Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 4 Mar 2025, 15:03 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

**Preliminary Market Engagement** - Legislative and Corporate Print

Official notice

Authority: Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 1 Sept 2029 · starts 1 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

***This is not a tender exercise***

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (the Assembly Commission) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to award a contract for Legislative and Corporate Print services.

Prior to initiating the procurement, the Assembly Commission wishes to establish the level of market interest in participating in the procurement process. Any information gathered through this market engagement exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market engagement exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process. Suppliers who wish to participate in the market engagement exercise should complete the pre-market engagement questionnaire.

Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from CfT documents. The questionnaire must be completed and returned via the Messaging function of eTendersNI in accordance with the instructions detailed in the PME Questionnaire document. There are no formal tender documents to be completed other than the questionnaire.

**PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE MESSAGING FUNCTION on eTendersNI, BEFORE 3PM ON FRIDAY 28th MARCH 2025**

CPV: Digital printing services · Printing and delivery services · Printing and distribution services · Printing and related services · Printing services · Services related to printing

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
4 Mar 2025, 15:03 GMT
Last source update
4 Mar 2025, 15:03 GMT
Authority reference
BR-033-2022
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-007882
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Digital printing servicesPrinting and delivery servicesPrinting and distribution servicesPrinting and related servicesPrinting servicesServices related to printing
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN0)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e96c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 Mar 2025 → 1 Sept 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    4 Mar 2025, 15:03 GMT
  2. Market engagement
    28 Mar 2025, 23:59 GMT

    ***This is not a tender exercise***

    The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (the Assembly Commission) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to award a contract for Legislative and Corporate Print services.

    Prior to initiating the procurement, the Assembly Commission wishes to establish the level of market interest in participating in the procurement process. Any information gathered through this market engagement exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market engagement exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process. Suppliers who wish to participate in the market engagement exercise should complete the pre-market engagement questionnaire.

    Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from CfT documents. The questionnaire must be completed and returned via the Messaging function of eTendersNI in accordance with the instructions detailed in the PME Questionnaire document. There are no formal tender documents to be completed other than the questionnaire.

    **PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE MESSAGING FUNCTION on eTendersNI, BEFORE 3PM ON FRIDAY 28th MARCH 2025**

  3. Tender notice expected
    1 Jul 2025, 00:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    1 Sept 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Mar 2025, 15:03 GMT
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Northern Ireland Assembly Commission

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central governmentNorthern Irish devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PYCW-9139-GQXZ Parliament Buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT4 3XXContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure