Notice Information
Notice Title
Printing and related services
Notice Description
To provide Portsmouth Water with Print Management, Bill Print and Send, Print on demand, Direct Mail Campaigns, Customer Letters, Incident Communication, Storage/Stock management.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This procurement seeks to procure the services relating to the printing and postage of our customer communications directly sent to named customers. Examples of communications can include: Customer bills; Tailored letters following customer queries; Specified inserts relating to individual bills including Bank giro Credit Vouchers. This will require the supplier to integrate with Portsmouth Water's Customer Relationship Management System to receive and send print files to provide services. Approximately, 550,000 customer communications will be printed and sent to customers annually using postage as its core provider of delivery. The supplier will be responsible for the end to end management from receipt of data through to delivery by the postal supplier or via door drop delivery.
Renewal: 5 years contract (60 months), with the option to extend an additional 5 years (60 months)
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04e741
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079466-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
22 - Printed matter and related products
30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
22000000 - Printed matter and related products
22100000 - Printed books, brochures and leaflets
22458000 - Bespoke printed matter
22900000 - Miscellaneous printed matter
30199700 - Printed stationery except forms
30199710 - Printed envelopes
79800000 - Printing and related services
79810000 - Printing services
79811000 - Digital printing services
79820000 - Services related to printing
79821000 - Print finishing services
79824000 - Printing and distribution services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £5,200,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £5,200,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 24 Mar 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 5 Nov 20253 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
- PORTSMOUTH WATER LIMITED
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Frances Hallworth, Marina Gilmour
- Contact Email
- frances.hallworth@portsmouthwater.co.uk, marina.gilmour@portsmouthwater.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2392499888
Buyer Location
- Locality
- HAMPSHIRE
- Postcode
- PO9 1LG
- Post Town
- Portsmouth
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ35 South Hampshire
- Delivery Location
- TLJ South East (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Havant
- Electoral Ward
- Havant St Faith's
- Westminster Constituency
- Havant
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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