PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Apprenticeship certificate printing

Department for Education · published 18 Dec 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDa798ac51-4ad4-455d-ac4f-ed6ce905a6ef-876604
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-aea83ee3-27bd-4924-9659-8aa5dfc702c7
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-168937
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£4,060,772
award field
Tender value
£4,060,772
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79823000
Printing and delivery services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The supplier will handle the white paper factory printing and distribution of DfE certificates for apprenticeship standards, frameworks, and T Levels, including distinct certificate and covering letter designs for each. They will package and dispatch certificates securely to various recipients (employers, apprentices, schools, colleges, training providers) using tracked delivery. The service includes integration of tracking data with DfE systems, proof of delivery reporting, artwork amendments, management of undelivered certificates, and secure destruction of returned items.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release18 Dec 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published22 Dec 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Jan 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published1 Jan 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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Published name only

HH Associates Limited

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 18 Dec 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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