1)Legislative Timescales, Quality of Service
CFH Docmail Ltd, Financial Data Management Ltd and DQ Group Limited (also known as Dataquest Group).
The winning bidder is registered on the Crown Commercial Services Framework Postal Services framework.

To award the Revenues and Benefits (RBS) printing, supply, collation and despatch of annual (bulk) Council Tax Bills service delivery contract.

The rationale for a contractual period of two years plus a break clause and then one further year (three years total) is primarily to ensure that a contract for Tendring District Council’s C/Tax annual bulk billing is now in place until April 2028 (LGR new unitary vesting-day).
The break clause and year three option facilitates Tendring District Council potentially working collaboratively with the future Unitary Council/ Shadow Board to either undertake their own contract procurement for 2028/2029 or use the year three contract option for C/Tax annual billing this contract affords.
The successful bidder – CFH Docmail Ltd – is also used by Braintree District Council with Colchester City Council currently using Financial Data Management Ltd who were included in this quotation exercise.