Contract award · 12 Jan 2026

Provision of Specialist Printing Services for Annual Council Tax Bills, Annual Business Rates Bills, Annual Housing Benefit and Annual Council Tax Reduction Scheme Letters, plus Daily Council Tax and Business Rates Documents, including Council Tax Reduction letters YPO, CCS, ESPO Framework RM6280 - (Postal services and solutions)

Blackpool Council awarded “Provision of Specialist Printing Services for Annual Council Tax…” to Critiqom Limited Trading as Mail Metrics for £1m.

Postal & telecoms servicesNorth West

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Key facts

Buyer
Blackpool Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£1,000,000
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Postal & telecoms services · Postal services (CPV 64110000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date12 Jan 2026
  2. Published12 Feb 2026Published 31 days after the contract date

Description

Provision of Specialist Printing Services for Annual Council Tax Bills, Annual Business Rates Bills, Annual Housing Benefit and Annual Council Tax Reduction Scheme Letters, plus Daily Council Tax and Business Rates Documents, including Council Tax Reduction letters. Blackpool Council is calling off YPO Framework RM6280 - (Postal services and solutions) Blackpool Council hosts a shared Revenues and Benefits Service for Blackpool and Fylde Borough Councils and is looking to identify and appoint a single service provider for the provision of specialist printing services for Annual Council Tax Bills, Annual Business Rates Bills, Annual Housing Benefit and Annual Council Tax Reduction Scheme Letters. The Council also require the service provider to produce daily Council Tax and Business Rates documents. This includes, but would not be limited to, the production of Bills, Adjustment Notices, Reminders, Final Notices, Summonses and Recovery documents. There may be the requirement for additio…

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