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title: "SC21098 A Kentish Magazine, Website, and Kent Bereavement Guide"
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# SC21098 A Kentish Magazine, Website, and Kent Bereavement Guide

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc21098-a-kentish-magazine-website-and-kent-bereavement-guide-ocds-h6vhtk-03353e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Kent County Council: "SC21098 A Kentish Magazine, Website, and Kent Bereavement Guide". Published status: complete. Published Value: £420,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 15 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Kent County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/kent-county-council-ons-e10000016)
- **Published Value:** £420,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 15 June 2022 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, Printed matter and related products
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03353e`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc21098-a-kentish-magazine-website-and-kent-bereavement-guide-ocds-h6vhtk-03353e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%3FadvertId%3Dfd5f15b6-51cd-ec11-8114-005056b64545%26p%3D8691483f-2f3d-e711-80e1-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc21098-a-kentish-magazine-website-and-kent-bereavement-guide-ocds-h6vhtk-03353e#participate

## Description
Libraries, Registration and Archives (LRA) is the part of Kent County Council that deals with the registration of births, deaths, marriages, and civil partnerships. Since the 1994 Marriage Act, the service has provided licences to private venues across the county so that civil marriages can take place within them.
The Council requires a publisher for the following outlets:
- A magazine, used to promote the services (A Kentish Ceremony Magazine)
- A website, used to promote the services (www.akentishceremony.com)
- A Bereavement Guide, that features all the details people need to know about how to register a death, and many of the other things that need to be organised at a difficult time.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 22000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £420,000
- **Description:** Magazine (A Kentish Ceremony Magazine):
One of the most successful marketing channels has been the creation of ‘A Kentish Wedding
Magazine’ in 1997. This magazine, now called A Kentish Ceremony Magazine, is now
available quarterly and covers a mixtur...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 025704-2022-SC21098 A Kentish Ceremony Magazine, Website, & Bereavement Guide-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Sideways Media Ltd.**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-63452`

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 025704-2022-SC21098 A Kentish Ceremony Magazine, Website, & Bereavement Guide-1 (active)

  - Signed Date: 10/08/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025704-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-09-13T15:45:24.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T05:01:50.932Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03353e