Decision details

This contract covers all the Council’s printing requirements from publicity and promotional material to corporate stationery and printed forms where required by the business. Apart from the corporate stationery and forms all the print requirements are bespoke material, one-offs and hugely varied in their requirements. Over the life of the previous contract the Council's print spend has being driven down through a combination of better buying through the contract and a move to digital communications, but there is still a need for printed material to communicate with residents.

The new contract is for an initial period of three (3) years and has two (2) optional two (2) year extensions.

A full OJEU procurement has been carried out and following the evaluation of the seven (7) responses received, the response from Corporate Document Services Ltd, scoring highest for both quality and price, has been identified as the most economically advantageous tender.

RESOLVED:

1.    That approval to Procure for the projects listed in Annex 1 of the submitted report – “Annual Procurement Forward Plan for 2020/21” in accordance with the Council’s Procurement and Contract Standing Orders was agreed.

2.    That where the first ranked tender for any projects listed in Annex 1 of the submitted report is within the +/-5% budgetary tolerance level, the relevant Executive Director, Director or Head of Service (as appropriate) is authorised to award such contracts was agreed.

3.    That the procurement activity that will be returned to Cabinet for review of the commissioning and procurement strategy prior to going out to market, and which is highlighted in grey in Annex 1 of the submitted report was agreed.

Reasons for decision:

·         To comply with the Procurement and Contract Standing Orders agreed by Council in May 2019.

·         To provide Cabinet with strategic oversight of planned procurement projects for 2020/21.

·         To ensure Cabinet oversight is focussed on the most significant procurements.

·         To avoid the need to submit multiple individual requests for Approval to Procure as well as individual contract award approvals for work taking place in 2020/21.

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