The subject of the order is printing services as well as postage-optimized pre-sorting and mail provision for central production by an external service provider. The printing service includes the printing of the entire outgoing paper mail, including other printed products, taking into account all possible scenarios.
In addition to optimising postage costs, the aim is to save printing costs in particular through shipment consolidation and consolidation.
The Bundesinnungskrankenkasse Gesundheit (Federal Guild Health Insurance Fund) – or BIG direkt gesund for short – is Germany's first statutory direct health insurance fund and is open nationwide. BIG was founded in 1996 by the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians. BIG currently serves around 514,000 policyholders throughout Germany (as of December 2022). Like all statutory health insurance companies, BIG is a corporation under public law. More than 960 employees work at the head office in Dortmund, the legal headquarters in Berlin and the customer centres.
As an IKK regional association, BIG also represents the interests of insured persons in the guilds in Berlin. In this context, it alone or together with the cash associations of local, substitute and company health funds carries out numerous tasks of representing stakeholders.
As part of an EU-wide tender, the client plans to conclude a contract with a print service provider for central production, i.e. the
— central printing and dispatch of their correspondence with their insured persons in the form of his:
(1) daily individual outgoing letters;
(2) Serienbriefen;
(3) Follow-up mailing (self-mailers and cards)
(4) Registered mail
(5) Letters with exemption cards,
(6) Marketing mailings via PDF template and CSV data file as well as
(7) of special letters, which may be sent to you. require manual enveloping.
Such as
— central printing of offset inserts (folders, flyers, brochures), print-on-demand inserts (POD), envelopes, stationery, exemption cards (statutory co-payment).
In this context, the client is looking for a partner who is willing to meet the requirements of a flexible, dynamic and future-oriented printing process with his professional knowledge, his organizational and technical possibilities and his performance. The automated production and dispatch of daily correspondence, as well as the production and dispatch of form letters/mass letters and the central printing of inserts (folders, flyers, brochures), envelopes, stationery and exemption cards (statutory co-payment) place the highest demands on modern printing technology, just-in-time production with enveloping, print-on-demand, insert control, as well as postal delivery and postage for one or more Postal service providers.
The contract is awarded for a period of 2 years, with the option of a double extension by the client by 1 year each. The start of services is 01.01.2024.