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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Education

Apprenticeship certificate printing

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79800000 79820000
Value£4.1m
Awarded22 Dec 2025
Published18 Dec 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.1mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£4.4m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The supplier will handle the white paper factory printing and distribution of DfE certificates for apprenticeship standards, frameworks, and T Levels, including distinct certificate and covering letter designs for each.

They will package and dispatch certificates securely to various recipients (employers, apprentices, schools, colleges, training providers) using tracked delivery.

The service includes integration of tracking data with DfE systems, proof of delivery reporting, artwork amendments, management of undelivered certificates, and secure destruction of returned items.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The service includes integration of tracking data

The service includes integration of tracking data with DfE systems, proof of delivery reporting, artwork amendments, management of undelivered certificates, and secure destruction of returned items.

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

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

ApprenticeshipsPolicies & commitments
Apprenticeship certificate printing

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
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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