Decision details

Kirklees Council worked with Crown Commercial Services and several other public sector organisations to award a framework for high volume mail services.

The NFC185 Postal Services Aggregation has now been awarded and the council will buy from this as the current contract ends 7 February 2025.

The new contract locks in our current unit price per mail item at a time when mail prices continue to surge as the market shrinks.

The council sent over 1.4 million mail items in prepaid envelopes in 2022/23 costing over £616k. We are expecting this volume to drop in year and in subsequent years as we switch to digital fulfilment of as many letters, bills and reminders as possible.

The decision is to award the contract to the winner of the Crown Commercial Services NFC185 Postal Services Aggregation in order to maintain our price per unit.

This was the most cost effective solution to reprocure mail services whilst we are driving to reduce our volumes by 65%