Royal Mail has launched a GBP 400 million tender for its entire print requirement in arestructuring of the group’s document management services.
The UK’s national postal operator is seeking to award the contract to a single supplier orconsortium, to replace its current dependence on a scattering of almost 80 smaller companies.
Leading contenders for the contract – the only ones thought to be large enough to fulfil sucha giant order, according to the trade magazine PrintWeek – are outsourcing specialists Williams Leaand Astron.
The four-year, UK-wide contract is to provide print management services – print, finishing,storage, preparation for delivery, scanning and indexing, reprographics and digital archiving – forRoyal Mail and its affiliates, including Post Office and Parcelforce Worldwide, the group says inits tender specification. The closing date for bids is 22 January.
The successful contractor is expected to take over Royal Mail’s print management servicesbefore the summer, said PrintWeek. Meanwhile, the postal operator’s print output is being managedby a new unit of 25 staff – Royal Mail Document Management Services – which went into operation on1 January.
