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Derbyshire County Council

CCP074 - Provision of a Print Service DPS

Business ServicesCPV 22000000
Value£700k
Deadline30 Nov 2027
Published30 Sept 2022
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 30 Sept 2022460 days leftCloses 30 Nov 2027
Who to contact
Mrs Julia Apperley
julia.apperley@derbyshire.gov.uk
+44 1629536854

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£700ktotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£2.4m

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.

When this comes round again

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The brief

The Council are looking to procure a Print Service using a DPS, the DPS is split into 10 Lots.

The purpose of this procurement is to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System for Print Services.

The DPS is for a period of 60 months with a quantity of 10 Lots being available.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
The purpose of this procurement is to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System for Print Services.

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.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0371f5
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
027533-2022
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