Awarded contract

Document Storage and Retrieval Services

Details

Supplier(s)
Stor-a-File Ltd
Value
£504,000
Duration
5 years
Topic
Document management system
Published
11 April 2024

Tender description

Leicestershire County Council required a supplier that can safely secure storage for physical files, mainly paper files but some photographs and negatives which require a temperature-controlled environment. The Council has approximately 350,000 files in off-site storage, held in 23,000 boxes. This is likely to decrease gradually over time as rates of destruction increase. The Council requires a delivery and pick-up service available each working day but with the flexibility to restrict the service to specified days as required, files to be delivered and picked up between 08:30 and 10:00 at the latest. The Council also requires an urgent order service by which files should be delivered to County Hall within 2 hours of being requested. There should be an out of hours (emergency) service available. The Council requires a secure and confidential file and box destruction service, with a reasonable turnaround time and with the timely provision of destruction certificates. The Council indexes files using their own system at box and file level. The Council requires a web-based ordering and tracking interface with the off-site storage supplier. Procured via further competition ESPO Framework 390_22 Document Management Solutions.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 April 2024
  2. Completed: Award published11 April 2024
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2029in 2 years

About the buyer

Leicestershire County Council buys as a local authority, advertising larger contracts on the government's Find a Tender service. Smaller contracts appear separately on Contracts Finder, the portal for lower-value public work. Some contracts also run through frameworks set up by outside bodies, including ESPO, and suppliers apply to join those directly. The council itself trades nationally as ESPO, running framework agreements for public bodies nationwide. A two-year procurement plan on the council's open data site lists contracts still to come. Suppliers must also register on Find a Tender, a requirement since April 2026.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Leicestershire County Council's contract awards have been in transport services, construction work and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48311100 · Document management system
  • 63121000 · Storage and retrieval services
  • 72300000 · Data services
  • 72512000 · Document management services
  • 79995100 · Archiving services
  • 79996100 · Records management
  • 79999100 · Scanning services
  • 92512100 · Archive destruction services

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