SUSTAINABLE DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE SERVICES PROVIDER

Southampton City Council (SCC) is looking for a warehousing and logistics provider to continue to provide a Sustainable Distribution Centre (SDC) service, offering freight consolidation and comprehensive warehousing from their premises to Southampton and the surrounding areas. These benefits could be achieved by the SDC providing a combination of short-term and long-term storage options, receiving goods preferably 24/7 (increasing the opportunity for night trunking and out of hours delivery) and then forwarding them to the end-users at a designated time.

This will enable organisations using the SDC to reduce their level of onsite storage capacity, increase retail/office space, and have greater control over delivery times and frequencies. The desired result is a positive impact on the bottom line of the user and/or to enable a more efficient use of office/retail space, as well as to reduce the number of delivery vehicles travelling into and out of the city of Southampton.