Provision of international courier services for British Council offices in Asia Pacific and Question Paper Distribution (QPD) & Confidential Material Room (CMR) for Pakistan

Buyer
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE)
Value
£7,000,000
Closes
16 November 2026
Where
London, London
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

The British Council wants to appoint courier companies to move confidential exam papers and materials. Lot 1 covers international collection and delivery from Asia-Pacific offices to destinations worldwide, and Lot 2 covers secure domestic distribution of question papers within Pakistan. Suppliers can bid for one lot or both, and each lot is scored separately.

What the buyer wants

• Secure, tracked collection, transport and delivery of confidential exam materials, with proof of delivery and incident management • Chain-of-custody procedures, strong security controls and contingency plans to meet strict exam deadlines • For Pakistan: staffing, vehicles, city coverage and secure storage to run the Confidential Material Room and deliver papers to exam venues

Lots

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

The international lot needs security controls, chain-of-custody systems and contingency plans across multiple Asia-Pacific countries, which most small firms cannot evidence, so a small business is most realistically competitive only on the Pakistan domestic lot if it has its own secure storage, vehicles and city coverage.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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