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DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

STA National Curriculum Print and Collation Services 2018

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£3.2m
Awarded31 May 2017
Published22 Jan 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£3.2mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

A call-off against Crown Commercial Services RM3785 Print and Managed Services framework to Lot 1 as a direct award.

Lot 1 is a single supplier lot, awarded to APS Group ltd, for end-to-end print, fulfilment and related services.

The call-off is for an initial one year term with the option to extend for a further year.

The work covers the print and collation of the key stage 1 and key stage 2 test papers and the Phonics check materials.

The ultimate output is collated consignments of test materials that are handed over to Parcelforce for delivery to the approx.

16.5k schools that take part in each test group.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
A call-off against Crown Commercial Services RM3785 Print and Managed Services framework to Lot 1 as a direct award.

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Stage
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