Official UK procurement notice
Print Management, Digital Communications and Print Marketplace
Authority: Government Commercial Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe RM6420 Print Management, Digital Communications and Print Marketplace framework agreement will replace the following GCA print framework agreements:
RM6297 Print and Digital Communications
RM6371 Print Marketplace 2
RM6389 NHS Notify Printed Communications and Related Services
Print Management and Digital Communications:
The provision of managed, end to end print services including operational print, transactional print, security print, direct mail, storage, fulfilment and distribution, digital asset management, digital solutions, scanning, pre-production services, media duplication and Official Papers (Command and House Papers).
Print Marketplace:
A self-service, end-to-end, instant quote digital platform for buying printed material all over the UK, particularly low value / high volume requirements including brochures, flyers, leaflets, business cards, letterheads and other transactional print.
NHS Notify Printed Communications:
Printed letters and postal mail for both standard letters and accessible letters on behalf of the NHS and health authorities, sending communications such as, but not limited to: invitations for vaccinations, cancer screening, vaccination appointment booking, secondary care referral appointment booking. Also including (but not limited to): braille, large print, multiple languages, audio CD and easy read.
When contacting GCA regarding this agreement, please ensure that you reference the agreement details in all correspondence.
CPV: Printed matter and related products
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs 6 mo from 7 Jun 2028
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Print Management, Digital Communications and Print Marketplace” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Government Commercial Agency buys Printed matter and related products (CPV 22), and who usually turns up
Government Commercial Agency’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Printed matter and related products (CPV 22) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 138 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid7% / 9%
2–354% / 43%
4–65% / 33%
7+35% / 15%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 22Published estimate£1.7bn
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 22. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 86 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–343%
4–633%
7+15%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
- Authority reference
RM6420- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090048- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07786bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
23 Sept 2026 → 7 Jun 2028 · 3 dates- Planning notice published35 days ago23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expected5 Jan 2028, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts7 Jun 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BSTUK1
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender