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Kent County Council

SC240052 - Print Services Framework

Business ServicesCPV 22000000
Value£630k
Deadline21 Mar 2025
Published19 Feb 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 19 Feb 2025ClosedCloses 21 Mar 2025
Who to contact
Mr Alexander Forster
Alexander.Forster@kent.gov.uk

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
£630ktotal 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.

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The brief

Kent County Council are seeking to procure a Print Services Framework.

The print framework will allow the council to fulfil its external print requirements and ensure competitive pricing across several specific Lots, and is facilitated through the online print ordering platform Panacea.

The framework will consist of 7 suppliers over 2 Lots.

Lot 1 will be for print – both digital print and litho print.

This will consist of 4 suppliers.

Lot 2 will be for Merchandise.

This will consist of 3 suppliers.

Suppliers will need to complete and pass a Selection Questionnaire to proceed to the tender stage of this procurement.

Kent County Council will be utilising a restricted procedure for this procurement.

Please register at Kent Business Portal - https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/ - for further information.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The print framework will allow the council

The print framework will allow the council to fulfil its external print requirements and ensure competitive pricing across several specific Lots, and is facilitated through the online print ordering platform Panacea.

02

Suppliers will need to complete and pass

Suppliers will need to complete and pass a Selection Questionnaire to proceed to the tender stage of this procurement.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
005790-2025
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