Electoral forms

Tender description

Aberdeen City Council is acting as a central purchasing body for the purpose of procuring a Framework Agreement to provide Electoral Services for the Returning Officers for itself, Aberdeenshire Council and The Highland Council. Each Council will enter into separate call-off contracts with the successful suppliers as and when any Services are required. The design, production, printing, packaging and issuing of Poll Cards, Postal Poll Cards, Proxy Poll Cards and Proxy Postal Poll Cards. The design, production, printing, packaging and issuing of Postal Voting Packs. The printing of all ordinary and tendered ballot papers. A managed service of opening, scanning, matching and extracting postal vote documents for the entire duration of the postal vote opening project. The supplier should define which type(s) of electronic voting solutions they can provide. These may include (but are not limited to): — internet voting, — electronic voting within polling stations, — as above with touch screen facilities, — telephone voting, — SMS voting. The supplier must provide a system to electronically verify, adjudicate and count votes, and an experienced team including: — a site manager, — supervisors, — technical staff.