Notice Information
Notice Title
Legalisation Office International and Domestic courier services
Notice Description
The Contracting Authority's Public-facing Services department (PFS) constitutes several teams offering services directly to the public, two of which, Legalisation Services (LS) and Overseas Public Services (OPS), return documents to the public via courier/post. The Legalisation Office is the only UK Authority with the power to provide a service to legalise a document for use overseas. In excess of 500,000 documents are legalised annually, servicing the needs of hundreds of thousands of private and business customers from the UK and overseas (global delivery regions). The Contracting Authority requires the provision of these courier services.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0524aa
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027010-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK1 - Pipeline Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
64 - Postal and telecommunications services
-
- CPV Codes
64121100 - Mail delivery services
64121200 - Parcel delivery services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,100,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 17 May 20272 years to go
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 1 Feb 2028 - 31 Jan 2033 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- commercial.smi@fcdo.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1A 2AH
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027010-2025
23rd May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
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