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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Courier Services

Telecoms & PostCPV 64100000
Value£300k
Awarded29 Oct 2024
Published22 Jan 2025
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£300ktotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£7.9m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Postal & Telecommunications band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The requirements under this call-off contract are for the appointed supplier to provide Domestic and International Courier Services.

This Further Competition was divided into Lot 1- Post Room and Lot 2 - Exams Office.

Services under the scope of Lot 1 - Post Room will cover domestic, same-day and international courier services to support the University's routine business operations.

Services under the scope of Lot 2 - Exams Office will cover domestic, same-day and international courier services, as well as the processing of bulk shipments to support the Exams Office with the mass document production of award certificates and ad-hoc documentation.

This is a Further Competition under the Crown Commercial Service Framework - Courier and Specialist Movements (RM6171) Lot 1 - Collection and Delivery and Lot 3: Secure Collection and Delivery of Examination and Test Papers and Materials.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The requirements under this call-off contract are

The requirements under this call-off contract are for the appointed supplier to provide Domestic and International Courier Services.

02

Post Room will cover domestic, same-day

Post Room will cover domestic, same-day and international courier services to support the University's routine business operations.

03

Exams Office will cover domestic, same-day

Exams Office will cover domestic, same-day and international courier services, as well as the processing of bulk shipments to support the Exams Office with the mass document production of award certificates and ad-hoc documentation.

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.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This is a Further Competition under the Crown Commercial Service Framework - Courier and Specialist Movements (RM6171) Lot 1 - Collection and Delivery and Lot 3: Secure Collection and Delivery of Examination and Test Papers and Materials.

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
2ba4b0ba-43b1-4dd7-84f1-ca6c7150211f
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
2024UoS-1245
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