Distribution of Wigan Council's Resident's Magazine Borough Life

Tender description

Wigan Council is looking for an experienced provider with a detailed understanding of how to manage mass delivery services to deliver 'Borough Life', Wigan Council's resident's magazine, to every household in Wigan Borough. Flexibility and an ability to work to tight deadlines are essential. There are three editions of Borough Life per year and these are published in February, July and November. The required distribution of the magazine per edition under this Specification is 141,000 residential deliveries per edition (received by the distributor from the printer, bulk packed on pallets). You would be required to deliver to every household in Wigan Borough and 9,000 copies packed in boxes of 125 copies per box per edition (bulk deliveries - delivered by the printer to the distributor). Additional copies may require to be delivered for certain print runs e.g. to coincide with the Wigan 10 Kilometre run up to 5,000 additional copies (3,000 currently needed). We require all copies to be delivered within 21 days of receipt of the magazines from our print supplier. Interested applicants are directed to the Invitation to Tender documentation which contains a full specification for this service. The closing date for the receipt of final tender bids is Tuesday 5th March 2019 at 17:00.