CFH Hybrid Mail Gets Boost
CFH has gotten a framework agreement for its Docmail service from Buying Solutions, which means the document and mail processing house will be supplying its two year-old hybrid mail widgetry for public sector contracts throughout the UK for the next four years.
Buying Solutions is an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce in the Cabinet Office that delivers procurement solutions for nationally sourced commodity goods and services to customers in both central civil government and the wider public sector. Vendors included in the Buying Solutions framework get access to a diverse public sector customer base that comprises the biggest central government departments, National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and local councils, through to the smallest schools.
CFH is already an established print-and-mail services supplier to the public sector, mailing over three million documents in March alone during this year’s main council tax billing period, and earlier this year gaining Connecting for Health status, the assurance standard for NHS customers. Now, with the addition of its hybrid mail solution to its public service product mix, the company reckons it can save the government millions of pounds each year.
The CFH Docmail service combines online technology with Royal Mail delivery to provide a lower-cost way to send mail, whether a single personal letter or a database mailing reaching thousands. With the service, a mail originator creates a letter in Microsoft Word format on a PC and uploads it, along with any additional materials in PDF format, with recipient addresses to Docmail, where the mailing is printed and then delivered through CFH’s “downstream access facility” by the Royal Mail. Standard Docmail (equivalent to Royal Mail’s second-class service) prices start at 25p for a single-page, personalized black-and-white letter, or 34p for color. Prospective customers can also try the service for free.
CFH managing director Dave Broadway says, “Significant cost savings can be achieved by the use of hybrid mail and in the current climate this is clearly a route public sector bodies will find hard to ignore. By incorporating hybrid mail, customers can save in the region of 60% on their normal postal contracts.”
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