Postal Tenders and Contracts

Postal tenders cover standing contracts for mail collection, sorting and delivery between an organisation's own sites, and outbound mail to residential and business addresses. Larger notices sometimes bundle postal services with wider courier and parcel delivery work, and equipment notices for franking machines and hybrid mail solutions turn up alongside the service contracts.

Stotles brings together postal tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Postal services are mostly direct awards or call-offs from the Government Commercial Agency postal services framework, usually as standing contracts running a few years.

Postal tenders are scored on price per item, collection and delivery times, tracking, security for sensitive mail and account management. Standing contracts run for a few years, so the end date is the moment to bid.

Postal providers must meet Ofcom postal regulation where it applies, and secure mail must be handled in line with UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

The Government Commercial Agency postal services and solutions framework has lots covering collection and delivery of letters and parcels within the UK, international physical mail, and hybrid mail, and buyers also use it for digital mailroom services. Councils, NHS boards and national agencies call off from it, often by direct award, and some run a further competition. G-Cloud is also used for hybrid mail and print-and-mail work.

Postal buying is mostly direct award or call-off from the Government Commercial Agency postal services and solutions framework, usually as standing contracts running a few years. Councils, NHS trusts and health boards, universities and central government departments and agencies each tender postal contracts.

Read corporate strategies, service reviews, commissioning plans and expiry dates for existing contracts, which show postal work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Postal notices carry 64112000 (Postal services related to letters), and print and mail contracts carry 79800000 (Printing and related services).