An Post — colour print and mail fulfilment tender

An Post

An Post, established in 1984, operates the National Postal Service, along with an array of money transmission, savings and retail services throughout Ireland. In addition, An Post provides agency services for Government Departments and other bodies. As a national service provider, An Post services over one million delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1.7 million customers each week through 1 152 retail Post Office outlets
nationwide. An Post has an annual turnover in excess of 800 Million EUR. The An Post group includes a number of subsidiaries and associated companies including An Post National Lottery Company, One Direct, Postpoint, An Post Billpost Processing Services Limited, Post Consult International Limited, PrintPost Limited, and The Prize Bond Company Limited. An Post is seeking to enter into a Framework Agreement with one or more providers for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further two to meet its LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail
Fulfilment. Please note that following tender evaluation more than one provider may be appointed. An Post may consider the use of reverse auction tools.
Please see attached documents for full details of the requirements for both LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail Fulfilment.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2013-11-26. The procurement was published on 2013-10-26.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2013-10-26 Contract notice
Contract notice (2013-10-26)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Printed matter and related products
Quantity or scope:
An Post is seeking to enter into a Framework Agreement with one or more providers for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further two to meet its LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail Fulfilment. Please note that following tender evaluation more than one provider may be appointed. An Post may consider the use of reverse auction tools.Please see attached documents for full details of the requirements for both LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail Fulfilment.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Printed matter and related products 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Negotiated procedure
Type of bid: Submission for one or more lots
Award criteria
Lowest price

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: An Post
Postal address: General Post Office, O'Connell Street
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
E-mail: geraldine.donnelly@anpost.ie 📧
Phone: +353 17058250 📞
Fax: +353 18090907 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2013-10-26 📅
Submission deadline: 2013-11-26 📅
Publication date: 2013-10-29 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2013/S 210-363752
Refers to notice: 2012/S 247-408032
OJ-S issue: 210
Additional information
To receive more information about this tender, including any amendments and/or clarifications and to request any clarifications and/or to respond to this tender, you must register your interest to this tender on the following site: https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=71297&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
An Post, established in 1984, operates the National Postal Service, along with an array of money transmission, savings and retail services throughout Ireland. In addition, An Post provides agency services for Government Departments and other bodies. As a national service provider, An Post services over one million delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1.7 million customers each week through 1 152 retail Post Office outlets
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nationwide. An Post has an annual turnover in excess of 800 Million EUR. The An Post group includes a number of subsidiaries and associated companies including An Post National Lottery Company, One Direct, Postpoint, An Post Billpost Processing Services Limited, Post Consult International Limited, PrintPost Limited, and The Prize Bond Company Limited. An Post is seeking to enter into a Framework Agreement with one or more providers for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further two to meet its LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail
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Fulfilment. Please note that following tender evaluation more than one provider may be appointed. An Post may consider the use of reverse auction tools.
Please see attached documents for full details of the requirements for both LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail Fulfilment.
Lot number: 1
Title of the lot: Colour print
Short description:
Scope to include various sizes, colours and volumes to include the following (but not restricted to) across multi functions of our…
… organisation:— magazines and tabloids including Postnews, the Annual/Regulatory reports, Race Manuals for the An Post sponsored Rás, Christmas cards with envelopes, Santa's reply letters to approx. 130 000 children and Education Programme resource packs.— booklets, leaflets, posters— direct mail – bespoke sizes/finishes and specialised print solutions— miscellaneous requirements,— possible bulk print,— storage, fulfilment and delivery.
… organisation:
— magazines and tabloids including Postnews, the Annual/Regulatory reports, Race Manuals for the An Post sponsored Rás, Christmas cards with envelopes, Santa's reply letters to approx. 130 000 children and Education Programme resource packs.
— booklets, leaflets, posters
— direct mail – bespoke sizes/finishes and specialised print solutions
— miscellaneous requirements,
— possible bulk print,
— storage, fulfilment and delivery.
Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Mail fulfilment
Short description:
Scope to include:— supply of packaging materials;— poly-wrapping;— packing and fulfilment: postaim sort, publication services;— document printing and personalisation;— data prep, cleaning and formatting;— postaim and publication pre-sorting, bagging and tagging for discounted mailings;— machine and manual envelope insertion;— packing, re-packing and distribution;— storage, retrieval and despatch;— pick, pack and despatch.
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Scope to include:
— supply of packaging materials;
— poly-wrapping;
— packing and fulfilment: postaim sort, publication services;
— document printing and personalisation;
— data prep, cleaning and formatting;
— postaim and publication pre-sorting, bagging and tagging for discounted mailings;
— machine and manual envelope insertion;
— packing, re-packing and distribution;
— storage, retrieval and despatch;
— pick, pack and despatch.
Quantity or scope:
An Post is seeking to enter into a Framework Agreement with one or more providers for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further two to meet its LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail Fulfilment. Please note that following tender evaluation more than one provider may be appointed. An Post may consider the use of reverse auction tools.
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Please see attached documents for full details of the requirements for both LOT 1: Colour Print requirements and LOT 2: Mail Fulfilment.

Procedure
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 3
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Geraldine Donnelly

Reference
Dates
Publication date: 2012-12-22 📅
Identifiers
Notice number in the OJ S: 2012/S 247-408032

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2013/S 210-363752 (2013-10-26)
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