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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Crown Commercial Service

Print Marketplace

Print & PublishingCPV 22000000 30000000 30100000 30190000 30197000 30200000 30210000 30211000 79000000
Value£200.0m
Awarded6 Mar 2020
Published2 Jul 2020
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£200.0mtotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£216.0m

This is a large award for Printed Matter & Publishing — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,467 valued Printed Matter & Publishing tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has established a Framework Contract with a single Supplier to provide, host and manage a system known as Print Marketplace.

The Print Marketplace will: • service the high-volume, low-spend print requirements across the public sector; • enable public sector Buyers with access to a pre-qualified, dynamic and local supplier base; and • offer real-time instant pricing across the print landscape.

The Supplier will provide a full end to end service including the management of: the system, the print supply chain and Buyer registrations and support.

CCS has partnered with YPO to put this Framework Contract in place.

The full requirements are set out in Attachment 10 Framework Schedule 5 (Specification), in the ITT.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has established

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has established a Framework Contract with a single Supplier to provide, host and manage a system known as Print Marketplace.

02

The Supplier will provide a full end

The Supplier will provide a full end to end service including the management of: the system, the print.

03

Supply chain and Buyer registrations and support

supply chain and Buyer registrations and support.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has established a Framework Contract with a single Supplier to provide, host and manage a system known as Print Marketplace.
ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
CCS has partnered with YPO to put this Framework Contract in place.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
819bead0-9e5d-4a7c-a7bd-cbaabd37a63c
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
RM6071.
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