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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Merseytravel

Bureau Services for the Production, Issuance and Distribution of ITSO Customer Media

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 30162000
Value£480k
Awarded15 Jan 2019
Published12 Oct 2020
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£480ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This is a large award for Office & Computing Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Merseytravel requires a managed bureau service to encode, produce and distribute approximately 145,000 ITSO smartcard concessionary travel passes annually, for a 4-year period (with an optional 2 year extension) commencing in June 2019.

Required services include • Encoding, producing and distributing ITSO customer media devices; • A flexible agreement for the supply of ITSO certified blank white DESFire cards; • Secure data transfer in compliance with GDPR 2018 and Data Protection Law; • Printing and distribution of personalised covering letters and information leaflets; and • Stock management and control of all components of the contract including card media including issuing of ISRN numbers.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

A flexible agreement for the supply

A flexible agreement for the supply of ITSO certified blank white DESFire cards;.

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

UK GDPR / data protectionContract conditions
Secure data transfer in compliance with GDPR 2018 and Data Protection Law;

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
MERTVL001-DN379821-52473650
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