Passports

Tender description

Contract for the design, production and personalisation of the UK Passport and its Variants and other secure documents. Due to the upcoming expiry of its current passport design, print, assembly and personalisation contract, the Contracting Authority undertook a procurement in respect of a new contract for passport production and associated services, to include but not be limited to; Design, print, assembly and personalisation of the UK Passport and its Variants; Design, print, assembly and/or personalisation of other secure travel documents, including Emergency Travel Documents on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Contracting Authority issues over 6 000 000 passports annually (with passport Variants accounting for circa 1.2 % of volumes) and is the only provider of passports to British citizens living anywhere globally. The UK passport is a secure travel document which contains many world leading security features; the integrity of which allows British Citizens to travel without a visa to a large number of countries.