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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Sheffield City Council

Post and Courier Services

Telecoms & PostCPV 64100000
Value£3.7m
Awarded18 Nov 2024
Published26 Jun 2025
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£3.7mtotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£7.9m

This is a large award for Postal & Telecommunications — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Council would like to appoint a dedicated 3rd party to deal with post and courier services to achieve better value for money and allow for a more efficient and effective management of items.

This will be as a minimum the following services: • Collection, sorting, and delivery of mail communication to addresses across the UK and international destinations. • Collection and delivery services for letters, large letters, pre-paid return mail, and parcels within the UK, Europe, Non - Europe destinations and Rest of the World destinations. • A range of delivery options. • A full track and trace solution for all mail items and parcels. • A robust process in place for dealing with mail items which have not been delivered successfully. • An on-demand courier service. • Necessary equipment and consumables needed to use the service at no additional cost to the client. • Security of all mail items collected from the client location during the collection and delivery process. • Staff performing security checks on all mail items comply with the statutory provisions of the Aviation Security (Air Cargo Agents) Regulations of 1993 & 1998.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Necessary equipment and consumables needed to use

Necessary equipment and consumables needed to use the service at no additional cost to the client.

02

Staff performing security checks on all mail

Staff performing security checks on all mail items comply with the statutory provisions of the Aviation Security (Air Cargo Agents) Regulations of 1993 & 1998.

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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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