Office of Public Sector Information

Contract Information

Her Majesty’s Stationery Office issues contracts to the private sector for the provision of a range of editorial, printing, publishing and distribution services to support its role in relation to the publication of legislation and related products; the Official Gazettes; Command and Departmental House of Commons Papers.

Whenever contracts are due to be re-tendered details will generally be advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union and published on this website.

Legislation Contract Tendering

Over the next year we will be running a competition to award contracts to produce and publish UK, Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish legislation on behalf of government and the devolved administrations.

A briefing event will be held on 30 November 2009, hosted by Intellect. If you wish to attend this event please contact Intellect

Before the tendering process begins we will make available additional technologies, information and data used to produce legislation. Potential bidders will be able to access these and experiment with new approaches. This information will be accessible on our website and the Government's innovation website: http://innovate.direct.gov.uk

Information already available on our website includes:

• Crown XML Schema for legislation. This is a reference source for those with an interest in data standards for legislation.
• Information on secondary legislation production processes

We would like to thank all those who have already shown interest in the original competition and hope that they will benefit from the additional information provided. Respondees to the original notice will need to re-respond to the re-issued notice.