--- title: "Provision of Postal Service to the Student Loans Company Limited" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "Student Loans Company" published: "2026-10-29" --- # Provision of Postal Service to the Student Loans Company Limited Buyer: Student Loans Company Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-54020a92-5f3f-4adf-a0da-7e5d554f98c5.json) ## Summary 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. ## Notice 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1d20e9c0-fe04-42ea-bd40-fa4bbe2964b0 | | 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 | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 29 Oct 2026 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 1 Oct 2026 - 7 May 2027 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £16,800,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | Student Loans Company | | Locality | GLASGOW | | Postcode area | Glasgow | | Postcode | G5 8DF | | Country | Scotland | | ITL 1 | TLM Scotland | | ITL 2 | TLM3 West Central Scotland | | ITL 3 | TLM32 Glasgow City | | Local authority | Glasgow City | | Electoral ward | Govan | | Westminster constituency | Glasgow South West | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 64 - Postal and telecommunications services ### Codes - 64112000 - Postal services related to letters ## Release History - 29 Oct 2026 at 14:50 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1d20e9c0-fe04-42ea-bd40-fa4bbe2964b0 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1d20e9c0-fe04-42ea-bd40-fa4bbe2964b0 29th October 2026 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/respondToList.html?noticeId=1079183687 Please follow this link to view the notice. ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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