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Contract Notice

MTCBC Council Tax and Benefits Annual Billing Process

  • First published: 09 December 2019
  • Last modified: 07 January 2020
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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-098027
Published by:
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Authority ID:
AA0347
Publication date:
09 December 2019
Deadline date:
14 January 2020
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Has documents:
Yes
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council has to undertake a statutory process at the start of each financial year and issue the Taxpayer with a Council Tax Demand notice, and where applicable Benefit notifications. The Council has a very small window available to it from when the Council Tax has been approved by Full Council to processing and making the files available for an external mail house to process and mail the relevant documentation to the taxpayer. The Council is seeking bids from capable and reputable providers for Council tax billing and mail services.

Full notice text

CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

SERVICES

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address


Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

Council Tax, Civic Centre, Castle Street,

Merthyr Tydfil

CF47 8AN

UK

Mark Price

+44 1685725000


http://www.merthyr.gov.uk
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

MTCBC Council Tax and Benefits Annual Billing Process

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council has to undertake a statutory process at the start of each financial year and issue the Taxpayer with a Council Tax Demand notice, and where applicable Benefit notifications. The Council has a very small window available to it from when the Council Tax has been approved by Full Council to processing and making the files available for an external mail house to process and mail the relevant documentation to the taxpayer.

The Council is seeking bids from capable and reputable providers for Council tax billing and mail services.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=98027.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

64110000 Postal services
64112000 Postal services related to letters
64121100 Mail delivery services
79570000 Mailing-list compilation and mailing services
79571000 Mailing services
1015 Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf)

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

The Total scope is contained in the attached documentation

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

MTCBC/RB/ABP 2020

4.3

Time Limits

Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders
    10-01-2020  Time  12:00

Estimated award date
 17-01-2020

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

EN 

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Bids are to be returned via Sell2Wales only.

(WA Ref:98027)

5.2

Additional Documentation

Council Tax Billing RFQ
Council Tax prequal
ITT7 Price Template

5.3

Publication date of this notice

 09-12-2019

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
64121100 Mail delivery services Multi-modal courier services
79571000 Mailing services Mailing-list compilation and mailing services
79570000 Mailing-list compilation and mailing services Office-support services
64110000 Postal services Post and courier services
64112000 Postal services related to letters Postal services

Delivery locations

ID Description
1015 Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf)

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

Document family

Notice details
Publication date:
09 December 2019
Deadline date:
14 January 2020 00:00
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Authority name:
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Publication date:
17 February 2020
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Authority name:
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

About the buyer

Main contact:
N/a
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

Further information

Date Details
07/01/2020 11:48
ADDED FILE: Revised ITT7 Price Template - PLEASE USE THIS
This replaces ITT7
07/01/2020 15:37
REPLACED FILE: Revised ITT7 Price Template
This replaces ITT7
07/01/2020 15:39
Notice date(s) changed
The Deadline date was changed from 10/01/2020 12:00 to 14/01/2020 17:00.

To allow bidders additional time to use the revised pricing document we supplied earlier today. This adds an extra two working days to the current deadline.

Postbox

The awarding buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Tender Submission Postbox facility.

Submit your tender response electronically in a secure environment.

To create an electronic response please click the "Add to my interest list" button at the top of the page.

For more information on the Postbox Facility please refer to the user guide:

Q&A

Ask the buyer any questions you may have relating to this notice. To ask the buyer a question or questions please click the "View Questions and Answers" button.

Additional documents

The following additional documents have been attached to this notice. To obtain these documents please select the individual file names below.

Current documents

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Replaced documents


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