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FCDO Services

Provision of Packaging Material and Ancillary products

Business ServicesCPV 44617000
Value£680,000
Deadline15 Oct 2026
Published15 Sept 2026
RegionNationwide

£680,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline
Published 15 Sept 202629 days leftCloses 15 Oct 2026
Who to contact
purchasingenquiries@fcdo.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

All clarification questions must be submitted via the messaging facility within Jaggaer. Suppliers must submit their tender response through the relevant Qualification, Commercial and Technical envelopes in the Jaggaer portal - https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html Instructions on how to create a supplier account, access the tender and submit a response are attached to this notice and are also included within the ITT documentation for reference.

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£680ktotal contract value
median £135k
this tender£0£4.1m

This is a large award for Construction Materials & Structures — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 10,341 valued Construction Materials & Structures tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

FCDO Services's Construction Materials & Structures cycle is past due — it ran about every 6 months across 9 notices, and the door is open now. It may re-tender at any time.

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The brief

FCDO Services requires a single supplier to provide generic and bespoke packaging materials for its Hanslope Park operation in Milton Keynes.

The scope includes standard packaging products, customised packaging solutions, and associated packaging requirements to support the Authority's operational activities.

The contract may extend beyond the current core product range detailed in the procurement documents.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

FCDO Services requires a single supplier

FCDO Services requires a single supplier to provide generic and bespoke packaging materials for its Hanslope Park operation in Milton Keynes.

02

The scope includes standard packaging products, customised

The scope includes standard packaging products, customised packaging solutions, and associated packaging requirements to support the Authority's operational activities.

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.

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-06fa12
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
087281-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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