Tender Ref: 434

You are invited to apply to join a list of tenderers for the printing and supply of the De Montfort University Undergraduate Prospectuses 2009.

You will be required to meet the following criteria:

• Print run:  65,000 copies
• Finished size:  210 mm x 210 mm square
• Pagination: 
  Cover: 4 pp, 4 colour process throughout plus full matt lamination and up to 50% spot UV varnish on outer cover
  Text:  276 pp, 4 colour process throughout
• Materials:
  Cover:  300gsm silk recycled paper
  Text:    100gsm silk recycled paper

• Perfect bound finish
• Provide the finished digital artwork on disk as Quark Xpress files with associated EPS and Tiff files
• Provide match point or equivalent colour digital proofs
• Delivery of sealed cartons on pallets, 10 copies per carton and clearly labelled for delivery to three sites in the United Kingdom.

An outline of the project timetable is as follows:

Printer commission date:  18 January 2008
Artwork available:   31 January 2008
Delivery date: First batch of 2000 copies by 25 February 2008
Remaining quantity by 3 March 2008

This is a strategic project of high value to the University and it is extremely important that the work undertaken is produced without sub-contracting.

Experience and facilities for Macintosh digital artwork, sheet-fed offset lithography plus web off set lithography of high quality academic and corporate literature is essential.

You may request tender documents by emailing purchasing@dmu.ac.uk and quoting reference 434.

Last date to request tender documents is: noon, 9 January 2008

Tenders must be returned by: noon on Friday 11 January 2008.

For all enquiries regarding this tender please contact Mrs Jyoti Mistry, Deputy Procurement Manager, Finance Department on telephone +44 (0) 116 2506338, fax: +44 (0) 116 2506069 or email: purchasing@dmu.ac.uk

Please note that the University will be closed from 5 pm on Friday 21 December 2007 and will re-open on Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

Publication date:  19 December 2007