Office of the Queen's Printer for Scotland
The Queen’s Printer for Scotland issues a contract to the private sector for the provision of a range of editorial, printing, publishing, distribution and dissemination services to support its role in relation to the publication of Scottish legislation and associated products. Details of the current contract are detailed below.
Whenever contracts are due to be re-tendered details will generally be advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union and published on this website.
The criteria by which tenders are evaluated to determine the most economically advantageous offer are:
a. an appraisal of the proposed methods of service delivery and whether these will enable the requirements to be provided as specified;
b. an appraisal on how the tender takes account of the opportunities provided by technological and other changes to provide improvements in the means of production and delivery;
c. an appraisal of the systems and measures proposed for managing, monitoring and controlling performance of the services and for ensuring their continuous quality;
d. the experience of the tenderer and proposed sub-contractors, including the scale, type and basis of services of this nature currently supplied;
e. the levels of experience of the proposed management and staff;
f. the tender price.
| Contractor | Date awarded | Expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| The Stationery Office Ltd (TSO) | 01 October 2005 | 31 December 2009 |
The contract covers the provision of a range of services in relation to the production, publication and dissemination of Scottish legislation including:
a. the provision of printing and binding services for the printed publications including the development and maintenance of appropriate templates to be used in the drafting of Scottish Statutory Instruments;
b. the provision of publishing, bibliographic, storage, distribution and sales services in respect of the following publications:
c. the provision of a range of electronic data services including hosting and development of the OQPS website (www.oqps.gov.uk) the encoding of new text, the loading of pages to the website and the provision of electronic data to authorised users in appropriate formats (including XML, PDF and HTML).