Printing services

Tender description

All Wales Print Framework The framework will comprise of 4 lots: Lot 1: Commercial high volume print; Lot 2: Commercial medium to low volume print (inc Digital); Lot 3: Specialist print and finishing, direct mail, transactional print and fulfilment; Lot 4: Managed service provision. This lot is for customers who have a requirement to deal direct with a print manufacturer for high volume print, (e.g. runs in excess of 40,000 for 8pp A4/16pp A5 etc,) for a range of print services that may include, but not be limited to brochures, catalogues, marketing literature, and reports etc. The supplier(s) must have in-house capability to print the requirement on their own machinery but can sub-contract certain areas where they cannot gain cost efficiencies using in-house machinery for specialist finishing applications. This lot is for customers who have a requirement to deal direct with a print manufacturer for a range of print services of medium to low print runs (e.g. runs for 5 000 up to 40 000 of 16pp A4/32pp A5 etc). Also Small to Medium sheet fed offset for medium runs (e.g. for 500 A4 up to 5 000 8pp A4/16pp A5 etc) that may include, but not be limited to marketing literature, reports, brochures, information booklets, stationery, folders, NCR sets/pads, etc. The supplier(s) must have in-house capability to print the requirement on their own machinery but can sub-contract certain areas where they cannot gain cost efficiencies using in-house machinery for specialist finishing applications. All Wales Print Framework. This lot is for customers who have a requirement to deal direct with a print manufacturer for specialist print and finishing. This may include items such as: point of sale products; vinyl printing; intricate gluing; hand finishing; complex folding; or any other specialist items that the customers may require. The supplier(s) must be able to offer services for direct mail and transactional printing that requires data personalisation in a secure environment. The supplier(s) must be able to source all printed items for inclusion in any direct mail campaign when required i.e. where a leaflet forms part of the campaign to be mailed, supplier(s) may be required to source and organise the printing of any inserts. The supplier(s) must be able to print variable data including but not limited to text. The supplier(s) must be able to offer services for collation and fulfilment. The supplier(s) must be able to offer mailing activity services to include liaison and management of postal Supplier(s) and the ability to handle mail sorting facilities (including offering advice) in order to gain discounts from the postal operators, examples are detailed below: — machine capable envelopes; — machine readable mail; — address completeness and accuracy including postcode and post town matching; — liaising with mailing supplier(s) to obtain the most cost effective mailing solutions for different product types. The supplier(s) must be able to offer a full range of dataset/database validation services for accurate and efficient mailings and to gain maximum postal discounts for both individuals and businesses that includes but is not limited to: — postcode address file validation and standardisation of data records to this file for: — address validation; — de-duplication of multiple data records in single and multiple files. De-duplication at individual, family or premise level. Organisational de-duplication to individual, company name or site level; — gone away suppression to cease sending mail that will not reach the intended recipient; — mortality suppression to cease sending mail to deceased individuals and businesses no longer trading; — mail preference screening and suppression to cease sending mail to those who have registered to this; — national change of address file validation to update the records of home movers; — name formatting and salutation creation; — list of preferred title formats and structures, non standard titles to be provided back for customer to decide on action; — titles to be inferred where possible if missing, and existing titles to be checked for gender accuracy; — spurious text to be identified and removed or checked.