Official UK procurement notice
PHS01627 Storage, Collation & Distribution of PHS Marketing Materials
Authority: Public Health Scotland
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPublic Health Scotland is seeking to put in place a contract for the provision of a storage, collation and distribution service for all of The Authority’s public health campaigns and publications which can range from order fulfilment of stock publications to specific campaigns
CPV: Printing and distribution services · Storage and warehousing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Public Health Scotland is seeking to put in place a contract for the provision of a…Planned
Public Health Scotland is seeking to put in place a contract for the provision of a storage, collation and distribution service for all of The Authority’s public health campaigns and publications, which can range from order fulfilment of stock publications to specific campaigns. On average, the Authority runs around 25 campaigns and receives around 1000 orders for publications per annum.
Publications are delivered to the supplier by our Print contractors.
The contract will be composed of two main elements:
Element 1 is publication distribution – this involves picking, packing and delivery of individual single orders placed by clients from the PHS catalogue of publications.
Element 2 is campaign distribution – this involves the collation and distribution of bespoke campaign materials to an address database provided.
Online Reporting System
The contractor will provide an online stock management system that the Authority’s Logistics Team will require to have access to. The system should contain the following:
Real time stock levels
Historical reports on all movements of stock and ability to download
The ability for the Authority to create pre-receipts or ASNs to give notification of stock deliveries into the warehouse
The ability to view proof of deliveries for all orders where possible
Access to miscellaneous information such as the stock line code, picked stock that is in the process of leaving the warehouse and the ability to notify of stock that is to be recycled.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Public Health Scotland buys Storage and warehousing services (CPV 6312), and who usually turns up
Public Health Scotland’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Storage and warehousing services (CPV 6312) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 43 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0%
2–333%
4–650%
7+17%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate35%
Within ±2%42%
Above estimate23%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Public Health Scotland is seeking to put in place a contract for the provision of a…CPV 6312Published estimate£1.0m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–325%
4–633%
7+33%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Sept 2026, 14:34 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 14:34 BST
- Authority reference
PHS01627- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090184- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0778b7Find a Tender
Publisher note: It is expected that the contract will be awarded in April 2027 with a contract start date of 1st June 2027. The contract will be for a period of 2 years with the option to extend by a further 2 years NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=843549. (SC Ref:843549)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Sept 2026 → 30 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published35 days ago23 Sept 2026, 14:34 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 32 days30 Nov 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Official documents & specifications
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