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British Council

SSA Courier Services Framework

Telecoms & PostCPV 64100000 64120000 64121000
Value£2.1m
Awarded28 Jan 2025
Published8 Jan 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£2.1mtotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£7.9m

This is a large award for Postal & Telecommunications — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Courier Services Through this invitation to tender (ITT) British Council is looking to hire a professional courier company to provide efficient and cost-effective delivery solution for business-critical service, who can manage the complete courier operation in SSA within local markets and the Region.

2.2 The purpose and scope of this ITT and supporting documents is to explain in further detail the requirements of the British Council and the process for submitting a tender proposal.

2.3 The objective is to create a framework of supplier(s) for British Council who can provide courier services within International, local markets and the Region most effectively to ensure value for money.

The tendering process is to create a framework of supplier(s) for our services; International Courier Services Local and Regional Courier Services 2.4 How the framework Contract is expected to be structured: The Framework Contract is a 3-split in 3 different Clusters within SSA.

Further information around what general service requirements under this framework can be found in section 7 of this document.

For clarity each of the Lots are as below: Lot Number Lot 1 Lot 2 International Courier Services Local & Regional Courier Services Southern Africa Cluster-Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana, Mauritius, South Africa Lot 3 Local & Regional Courier Services East Africa Cluster-Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia Lot 4 West Africa Cluster-Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Through this invitation to tender (ITT) British

Through this invitation to tender (ITT) British Council is looking to hire a professional courier company to provide efficient and cost-effective delivery solution for business-critical service, who can manage the complete courier operation in SSA within local markets and the Region.

02

2.3 The objective is to create

2.3 The objective is to create a framework of supplier(s) for British Council who can provide courier services within International, local markets and the Region most effectively to ensure value for money.

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2.4 How the framework Contract is expected

2.4 How the framework Contract is expected to be structured:.

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