Official UK procurement notice
Print and Production Services
Authority: ABELLIO EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEast Midlands Railway provides intercity and regional train services across the Midlands through to London. These are distinguished by 3 sub brands that reflect the region they serve and routes they operate:
EMR Intercity operates from the Midlands (Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester) through to London St Pancras
EMR Regional provides local services to towns and communities across England, including; Crewe, Matlock, Stoke-on-Trent, Peterborough, Grantham, Norwich and Skegness.
EMR Connect operates between Corby and London St Pancras. The Luton Airport Express operates on this route with majority of airport passengers travelling from London St Pancras.
EMR is looking for a supplier of short tern (up to 12 months) or repeat print and production requirements, including, but not limited to:
- Annual station dressings (in-station advertising and branding). Typically annual updates to all EMR owned in-station advertising and branding with new designs promoting rail value messages, ticketing products, and marketing campaign amplification. EMR also takes these opportunities to enhance existing sites where possible - either in the way they are creatively displayed or the materials used and review potential new opportunities.
- Promotional materials for commercial revenue activity, new business engagement, and retail equipment decals
- Signage for operational initiatives or infrastructure upgrades
- Promotional and customer comms posters and vinyls for on train
- Corporate materials for internal communications and business events
- How the procedure runs: A Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) including a 'Conditions of Participation' Stage. The PSQ stage will be evaluated and scored against the criteria contained within the PSQ document. A Tenderer's failure to submit a completed PSQ submission and any relevant supporting information may result in disqualification from any further evaluation of the tender response. Following assessment of the 'Conditions of Participation', compliant Tenderers will be invited to submit a Tender. Tenders will be evaluated and scored against the criteria in the Invitation To Tender (ITT) document. Contract award will be based on the scores obtained following the evaluation of the final revised Tender
CPV: Printing and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,440,000
- Economic & financial standing
Suppliers will be financially appraised during pre-qualification stage of the process to ensure financial capacity against contract value.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Project Management: 35%
- Quality Assurance: 10%
- Price - Station Dressing and Ad-hoc Print Pricing Scenarios: 45%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (4)
- Price - Station Dressing and Ad-hoc Print Pricing Scenarios
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
- Social Value
- Economic & financial standing
Suppliers will be financially appraised during pre-qualification stage of the process to ensure financial capacity against contract value.
- Price carries 45 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4.5 points. Quality carries 45 of 100: the paper moves it further than the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 Jul 2026, 15:14 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Jul 2026, 15:14 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 11 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
EMR/DH05/Print and Production Services- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-063746- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c572Find a Tender
- How it runs
A Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) including a 'Conditions of Participation' Stage.
The PSQ stage will be evaluated and scored against the criteria contained within the PSQ document. A Tenderer's failure to submit a completed PSQ submission and any relevant supporting information may result in disqualification from any further evaluation of the tender response.
Following assessment of the 'Conditions of Participation', compliant Tenderers will be invited to submit a Tender. Tenders will be evaluated and scored against the criteria in the Invitation To Tender (ITT) document.
Contract award will be based on the scores obtained following the evaluation of the final revised Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 7 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline
- 7 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
7 Jul 2026 → 8 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published111 days ago7 Jul 2026, 15:14 BST
- Submission deadline80 days ago7 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 15 days11 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 41 days8 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published7 Jul 2026, 15:14 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender