Notice Information
Notice Title
Revenues Print and Mailing Service for the City of London
Notice Description
The City of London Corporation (the City) undertook a 1 stage procurement process in relation to a Revenues Print and Mailing Service (the 'Service'). The Service covers the daily and ad hoc printing of multiple personalised bills, reminders, recovery and survey documentation, including where required, personalised payment documentation for NNDR, BIDs and Council Tax. **Please Note** This is an award notice and the opportunity is now closed.
Lot Information
Lot 1
**Please Note** This is an award notice and the opportunity is now closed. The City of London Corporation (the City) invited Tenders for the provision of a Revenues Print and Mailing Service. City Revenues is responsible for the collection of most income due to the City of London Corporation: Council Tax, NNDR (Business Rates), Commercial Rents, Residential Service Charges and Sundry Debts. The required Service will cover daily, annual billing and ad hoc printing of multiple personalised bills, reminders, recovery and survey documentation, including where required, personalised payment documentation for NNDR, BIDs and Council Tax. Annual Billing for NNDR, BID, and Council Tax are critical annual processes which cannot fail. Full end to end Annual Billing testing is a key Service requirement as well as meeting live annual billing deadlines. The initial Service may be extended to other documents issued by City Revenues such as Commercial Rents and Sundry Debts at the request of the City Revenues Management Team during the length of the Contract. The Service will also include printing and dispatch of one-off or mail merge personalised documents using a Hybrid Mail solution. The Service required a robust daily document control and balancing process including dispatch to Postal Provider is essential to allow an audit trail for recovery processes. The duration of the contract is five (5) years, with the option to extend up to two (2) further years in annual increments. The Contract is intended to commence 1st October 2021 to 31st September 2026.
Options: The duration of the contract will be five (5) years, with the option to extend up to two (2) further years in annual increments.
Renewal: This will be upon expiry of the contract and subject to internal approvals
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-029881
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020743-2021
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
64 - Postal and telecommunications services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
64110000 - Postal services
79800000 - Printing and related services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £490,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £490,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £95,583 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 Aug 20214 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 6 Apr 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 19 Aug 20214 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE MAYOR AND COMMONALTY AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF LONDON
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Chris Mulhall
- Contact Email
- chris.mulhall@cityoflondon.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2073321420, +44 2076063030
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- EC2P 2EJ
- 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
- TLI London
-
- Local Authority
- Islington
- Electoral Ward
- Clerkenwell
- Westminster Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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