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Provision of Postal Service to the Student Loans Company Limited

Student Loans Company

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29 Oct 2026 at 14:50

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Summary of the contracting process

The Student Loans Company is procuring postal services to collect standard mail from its sites in Darlington, Bothwell Street and Hillington, from Llandudno, and from its current transactional print supplier. The service covers mail collected at these points for onward postal delivery. The stated delivery locations span the United Kingdom, Europe, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the British Overseas Territories and the rest of the world. This is a postal service related to letters (CPV 64112000), bought by the Student Loans Company. The requirement is for the continuation of existing services while the company consolidates them into a single contractual arrangement. Its stated purpose is to avoid an impractical short-term supplier change involving implementation, knowledge transfer and transition to new processes and service arrangements.

The buyer invited offers for the postal service through a tender. The stated submission deadline was 1 September 2026 at 00:00 BST. The contract period runs from 1 October 2026 to 7 May 2027. The stated contract value is £16.8 million. The description identifies this as a modification extending the same services, to allow consolidation into a single contractual arrangement; it does not set out evaluation criteria or separate lots. The notice describes the extension as necessary because a short-term award to a new supplier would not be practical given the implementation, knowledge-transfer and transition work involved. The procurement method is described only as “Other”; no further procedure detail is available in the published procurement information.

This requirement is best suited to established postal operators with the operational capacity to collect standard mail from several sites and a print supplier, and to handle delivery across UK and international destinations. Suppliers need to support service continuity while the Student Loans Company consolidates its postal arrangements, including the practical demands of collection, processing and transition between service arrangements. The extension rationale highlights the time and resources required for implementation, knowledge transfer and adapting to new processes, so relevant experience in maintaining an existing service and managing operational transitions would be advantageous. The procurement is marked as suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises, but not for small and medium-sized enterprises. No particular technical accreditation or service-level qualification is stated.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Provision of Postal Service to the Student Loans Company Limited

Notice Description

Modification Notice Original description: This contract is for the collection of standard mail from Darlington, Bothwell Street, Hillington, Llandudno and our current Transactional Print Supplier Description of the modifications Extended period of the same services required. Description of the economic or technical reasons and the inconvenience or duplication of cost preventing a change of contractor: The contracts are being extended to facilitate their consolidation into a single contractual arrangement. Awarding a short-term contract to a new supplier would not be practical, given the time and resource requirements associated with implementation, knowledge transfer, and transition to new processes and service arrangements.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5
Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1d20e9c0-fe04-42ea-bd40-fa4bbe2964b0
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Other -
Tender Suitability
VCSE
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

64 - Postal and telecommunications services

CPV Codes

64112000 - Postal services related to letters

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£16,800,000 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
29 Oct 20264 days ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
1 Oct 2026 - 7 May 2027 6-12 months
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
Student Loans Company
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
GLASGOW
Postcode
G5 8DF
Postcode Area
Glasgow
Country
Scotland
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM32 Glasgow City
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Glasgow City
Electoral Ward
Govan
Westminster Constituency
Glasgow South West

Further Information

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