Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- West Lothian Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Critiqom SME
- Value
- £800,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Mailing-list compilation and mailing services (CPV 79570000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 017753-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Apr 2025
- Published29 Apr 2025Published the same day
Description
Hybrid and Bulk Mail Services is available across the council and current service users include Revenues, Housing, Anti-Poverty Service and Planning. In the period July 2023 to June 2024 a total of 193,364 items of bulk mail were issued and 143,659 items of hybrid mail were issued. There was a requirement for the ongoing use of hybrid and bulk mail as well as digital mail options. Hybrid mail allows users to develop mail items at the desktop for production off site by the supplier. A bulk mail service is fulfilled by the secure transfer of data files for production off site by the supplier. A digital mail service provides alternative options to the physical print of mail items, including SMS and E-mail communications. The use of hybrid, bulk and digital mail services will facilitate further transformational change and reduce the costs of print, production and mailing when compared to traditional methods. Additional information: This is a call-off from the Scottish Governments Postal S…
About the supplier
Critiqom: every public contract they have won.