Notice Information
Notice Title
Courier Services
Notice Description
Companies House requires a single Successful Bidder to provide Courier Services. The provision is required to:<br/>* Courier Services primarily for the distribution of IT equipment such as Laptops & miscellaneous equipment supporting Companies House hybrid employees in working from home. Majority of collections are locally delivered from the Cardiff office, for the delivery of desks, chairs, footstools and IT equipment.<br/>* The service will also be used for other movements as detailed for example shipments to 'The National Archives'.<br/>* This contract is demand driven. No guarantees are made to the volume of deliveries that will be requested from the successful bidder.<br/>* Provision of services is managed at 'Call off' in conjunction with Companies House staff.<br/>* Companies House requires a range of service options including same day deliveries within South Wales Area as (defined 15. South Wales Area Postcodes), next day delivery across the UK and delivery within 48 hours to Northern Ireland.<br/>* The successful bidder should note that the following requirements are not in scope for this contract:<br/>o Office moves<br/>o Movements with a cost of over PS5,000 - Companies House reserves the right to benchmark quotes from outside of this contract for services over PS5,000.<br/><br/>o Consignments with a destination or origin that is not our Cardiff office will require additional discussion and negotiation, we reserve the right to make alternative arrangements.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Companies House requires a single Successful Bidder to provide Courier Services. The provision is required to:
* Courier Services primarily for the distribution of IT equipment such as Laptops & miscellaneous equipment supporting Companies House hybrid employees in working from home. Majority of collections are locally delivered from the Cardiff office, for the delivery of desks, chairs, footstools and IT equipment.
* The service will also be used for other movements as detailed for example shipments to 'The National Archives'.
* This contract is demand driven. No guarantees are made to the volume of deliveries that will be requested from the successful bidder.
* Provision of services is managed at 'Call off' in conjunction with Companies House staff.
* Companies House requires a range of service options including same day deliveries within South Wales Area as (defined 15. South Wales Area Postcodes), next day delivery across the UK and delivery within 48 hours to Northern Ireland.
* The successful bidder should note that the following requirements are not in scope for this contract:
o Office moves
o Movements with a cost of over PS5,000 - Companies House reserves the right to benchmark quotes from outside of this contract for services over PS5,000.
o Consignments with a destination or origin that is not our Cardiff office will require additional discussion and negotiation, we reserve the right to make alternative arrangements.
Options: Two one year extensions
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04c24e
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031295-2025
- 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
-
- CPV Codes
64100000 - Post and courier services
64120000 - Courier services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £248,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £248,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Jun 20258 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 13 Jan 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 26 May 20259 months 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
- COMPANIES HOUSE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- commercial@companieshouse.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CARDIFF
- Postcode
- CF14 3UZ
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Cardiff
- Electoral Ward
- Gabalfa
- Westminster Constituency
- Cardiff North
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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