Awarded contract

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)

Details

Supplier(s)
Critiqom Limited Trading as Mail Metrics
Value
£1,250,000
Duration
5 years
Topic
Postal services
Published
12 February 2026

Tender 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 additional documents requested by Central Government or the Council to accompany the letters, the Council will notify the successful bidder if they are required.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date13 January 2026
  2. Completed: Award published12 February 2026
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date12 January 2031in 4 years

About the buyer

Blackpool Council buys as a local authority through its corporate procurement team. Larger contracts are split into smaller lots so small and voluntary sector suppliers can compete equally.

Healthcare services are commissioned separately under the Provider Selection Regime, with contracting activity summarised each year.

Over the past 5 years, most of Blackpool Council's contract awards have been in construction work, repair and maintenance and health and social work.

AI insights

  • Is there a preferred supplier?
  • What are the buyers pain points?
  • What has the buyer previously procured?
  • What are the key requirements?

This one's been awarded. Find the next before it's published.

Get a free pre-tender lead
Save this contract

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Contact nameJob titlePhone numberWork email
Head of Procurement+44 •••• ••••••
Commercial Director+44 •••• ••••••
Procurement Manager+44 •••• ••••••
Category Lead+44 •••• ••••••
Senior Buyer+44 •••• ••••••
Contracts Manager+44 •••• ••••••

1 similar open tenders

See more open tenders related to Postal services.

Explore all open tenders

Related topics

Topics related to 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), ranked by notice volume.

View all topics
TopicCountValue
  1. 4,413
    £290.4bn

Related buyers

Buyers similar to Blackpool Council.

View all buyers

Finding public sector work shouldn't be hard

Make your next tender search effortless with Stotles. Set up alerts, find decision maker contacts and never miss a good-fit opportunity again.