Print Production Tenders and Contracts

Rarely just printing. Print production notices bundle design, artwork, proofing, print, finishing and mailing into one contract, often as a multi-supplier framework split by lot: digital print in one, lithographic print or graphic design in another, fulfilment and despatch in a third. Electoral print runs as its own strand, with printing and postage tendered together against statutory deadlines.

Stotles brings together print production 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. Print production is often called off the Crown Commercial Service print and digital communications framework or dynamic purchasing systems, and councils share electoral print contracts.

Print production tenders are scored on price, quality, turnaround, sustainability of paper and inks, and security for electoral material. Frameworks are lotted by print type, so suppliers can bid where they have capacity.

Electoral print must meet Electoral Commission and legal requirements for ballot papers and poll cards, and buyers often expect FSC-certified paper. 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.

Buyers often bundle print with design, artwork and mailing, and much of the buying runs through multi-supplier frameworks, including the CCS print and digital communications framework, and dynamic purchasing systems. Councils buy electoral print, often as joint contracts across neighbouring authorities. Transport bodies, universities, housing associations, police forces and central government departments commission the wider print work.

Almost any organisation with something to send out. Councils tender election print and consultation leaflets, universities and museums run design and print frameworks, transport bodies buy passenger information print, and large utilities tender annual report production.

Read communications strategies, campaign calendars, event programmes and framework renewal dates, which show print production work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the communications teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Print production notices carry 79800000 (Printing and related services), 79810000 (Printing services) and 22100000 (Printed books, brochures and leaflets).