Notice Information
Notice Title
Warehousing, Storage and Delivery Services
Notice Description
The Post Office Ltd National Stock Centre (NSC) consists of two operations: Warehouse operations and Delivery Services. Warehouse operations includes forecasting, inventory planning and receiving SKUs from suppliers all the way up to delivery of transactional and value stock. Carriage management includes the dispatch of thousands of parcels a year from the stock centre to Post Office locations across the UK. The Post Office distributes stock to branches under an outsourcing arrangement and will continue doing so with a third party courier which will end in 2025/2026. It is anticipated that from the end of the existing outsourcing arrangement, the supplier will be required to undertake logistics services for the remainder of the duration of the contract. In the last operational year the Post Office: -Processes c.900,000 orders per annum through the warehouse. -Delivers c.600,000 of these orders) through next day and 48 hour parcel delivery services to c.11,500 Post Offices nationwide in the UK. -Warehouse holds 2400 SKUs, stores 4500 pallets and receives 16,500 pallets annually. Post Office are seeking to outsource their National Stock Centre operations so that they can benefit in the following ways: Cost o Reduce operating costs to gain better visibility into the cost drivers. o Benefits to changes in volume leading to cost change. Service o Post Office currently operates a legacy paper pick warehouse system and is looking to benefit from moving to a Vendor operating a modern warehouse software platform in order to improve pick accuracy. Capability o Post Office would like to move towards a newer WMS platform with increased functionality and streamlined processes. o Post Office is looking to gain increased visibility of the order within the warehouse, with the ability to see when an order is received, picked, packed and shipped. o Confirm exactly what orders and SKUs have been dispatched on which trailer, ensuring that there is full visibility on what exactly is being sent to which location. Flexibility o What Post Office would like to have by outsourcing their operation is to be able to take advantage of being able to flex their volumes at peak times, reducing it once the peak is over and also benefit from the associated cost flex that is in line with volumes.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-031e523c-cd7c-49a8-af2a-5447590f4d18
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ba296545-728f-404b-a31d-8f1c2a498f5f
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
63 - Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services
64 - Postal and telecommunications services
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- CPV Codes
63122000 - Warehousing services
64121000 - Multi-modal courier services
64121200 - Parcel delivery services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £50,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 30 Sep 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 31 Oct 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 30 Apr 2023 - 30 Apr 2033 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- POST OFFICE LIMITED
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- EC2Y 9AQ
- Post Town
- Central London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI43 Haringey and Islington
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England), TLL Wales, TLM Scotland, TLN Northern Ireland
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- Local Authority
- Islington
- Electoral Ward
- Bunhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ba296545-728f-404b-a31d-8f1c2a498f5f
30th September 2022 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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