How to win: Office Supplies (Stationery and Beverages)

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Great Places Housing Group (Great Places) is seeking to award a contract to a single supplier for the provision of Office Stationery and Beverages delivered to Great Places properties and offices located in Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and South Yorkshire. Great Places has outlined its core list of products. The products are detailed in the following categories: • Books and pads • Filing and storage • Office Environment • General Stationery • Paper • Post • Writing supplies • Beverage supplies The contract duration will be three years with the option to extend in one year increments up to a maximum of five years. All requirements are essential unless otherwise stated as desirable.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Great Places Housing Group Limited scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £221,213.99, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins goods work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar goods contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 12 October 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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