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FDM is a specialist in elections print and mail services. We haveworked with local authorities and consortiums for 20 years, during which time we have gained a unique understanding of the process and technicalrequirements.
About Us
01 about
FDM holds over 40 long-term publicsector contracts and is one of only 6 approved suppliers on the Government Procurement ServicePrint Framework. We are widelyrecognised as a reliable serviceprovider that continually meets themarket’s requirement for best value.
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Secure Data
Management
Postagesavings e-services
Quality litho& digitalprint
Productionefficiencies
PersonalisedMail
Uniquely equipped,
total solutions
AccurateDesign &
Typesetting
FDM has end-to-end production capabilities, delivering your elections project accurately,
efficiently and on-time.
MIS SOLUTIONS FOR PRINT
Our Services
02services
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LITHO PRINT
VARIABLE DATA LASER
DIGITAL COLOUR
DESKTOP PRINTER
WEB
SOCIAL MEDIA
SMS
FAX
Managing Your Election
03 election management
• Bespoke applications to work with your ERM software
• High security data confidentiality,encryption & protection protocols
• Complete control, end-to-end production in a 1st class facility
• Automated routines for highspeed matching of number sequences
• Flexible shifts and short-turnproduction to facilitate tightdeadlines, snap by-elections
• Artwork capture to ensure 100%accuracy of candidate details
FDM combine expert understandingwith cutting-edge technology tohandle projects of every scale andcomplexity.
• Efficient ballot paper to postalvote pairing
• OCR, barcoding and addressvalidation for optimum postagediscounts
• Effective SLA’s and accreditedISO quality controls
• In-house pre-print of inserts for streamlined production
• Hybrid mail and e-communicationsolutions
• Comprehensive disaster recoveryand contingency system in place
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04products
Postal Voting Packs
FDM has run postal voting projectsfor XX councils in the last 3 years.
Using our patented one-piece mailerwe have re-engineered the postalvoting process, simplified it for thevoter and delivered significant efficiencies in cost and time.
10pm on Thursday 2 May 2013
020 7055 1600
The Returning Officer
Sample Council
Electoral Services
Sample Town Hall
Sample Street
Sample Town
SA3 9LE
Manual or electronicmatching with ballotpaper
Precision controlledprint and scan toyour ERM software Clear, simple
instructions
Special cut windowsin ‘B’ envelopes
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Ballot Papers
• Programmed to you requirements• Capturing artwork to guarantee
100% accuracy of candidatedetails
• Automatic transfer of candidatenames of ballot papers
• Running high-speed matching of local, parliamentary and mayoral number sequences
• Precise execution of ballot paper to postal pack pairing
• Output quality verified to ISO 9001standards
• Automated print and collation of covers for each ward/constituency
• Competent staff committed toconfidentiality
• Internal FDM fleet delivery
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With our experience of the mostcomplex elections, FDM has developed accomplished routines to manage all your ballot paper numbering and printing.
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Polling Cards
Confirmation Letters
Poll cards are available with:• White or tinted• A4 to A6• Card or paper• Optional pdf maps• Enveloped for added security• Direct to post or back to client
From design and layout throughto final mile delivery, your poll cardsare expertly handled by FDM. WithOCR and barcode control from theoutset and our own DSA postageservice, you can realise the highestpossible postage discounts.
FDM’s professional design team cancustomise layouts to meet technicalrequirements, statutory wording andadd features like high quality maps.
FDM provide a complete range ofcost-effective personalised lettersolutions, including:• Confirmation of registration• Confirmation of postal vote
applications• Collection of verified signatures
and renewals• Optional pdf maps• Automated consolidation with
UC1’s and other documents toreduce output
06products
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Canvass Forms
Xx councils trust FDM to producetheir canvass forms every year.
FDM is committed to 100% accuracyand uses strict procedures, checksand measures to ensure the clarity of canvass information when it isprinted.
FDM’s pre-printed machines producethe highest quality forms, regardlessof size or quantity. They are set to accurately reproduce colours andstore settings to provide continuitythrough canvass and reminderphases, protecting your brand integrity.
Individual RegistrationFDM’s tailored approach sets us apartand by working closely with councils,we are helping to make individual registration as dynamic as possible.
A flexible service is essential to dealing with new challenges and complexities and FDM’s range of solutions provide simple, cost-effective options. With exceptionalproducts like Hi-mail, rolling registration and phasing in e-communication becomes an effortless process.
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Job management
FDM’s proven production process isrooted in an innovative, automatedworkflow system that builds in projectflexibility, security and reliability. Sophisticated Tharstern MIS technology collects complete, real-time data to provide predictable,repeatable accurate reports.
FDM also works with all softwareproviders like Idox (Strand), Eros(Halarose), Xpress and has a complete understanding of the file formats for each elections product.
08job management
FDM will provide you with a dedicated elections manager to assist through every stage of yourproject. As part of the Cabinet Working Party the FDM team is wellinformed and will advise on technicaldetails as well as best-fit and cost-saving alternatives.
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09 case study
GLA Case StudyAt the last GLA election FDM workedwith 24 London boroughs to providetheir print and postal requirements.
The situation presented opportunitiesto simplify project delivery throughshared experience, as well as challenges arising from the scale of the operation. A universal approachto make efficiencies was deemed asensible approach, but any solution tobe implemented needed consensusof opinion.
FDM were able to coordinate opendiscussions and develop proposalsthat would achieve consistencyacross the boroughs involved. Recommendations included standardising poll card wording and postal vote instructions to gainprinting economies of scale, whilst alternative artwork remained available to meet an individual boroughs needs.
In this way, FDM were able to provide a collaborative solution thatmet the project and performance requirements of 24 boroughs and enable them to deliver on their ownobjectives.
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10reduce costs
Reducing Your Costs
• Process re-engineering to remove costs
• Fully in-house, end-to-end production efficiencies
• Product matching and enclosing to reduce output
• Standardisation of materials, sizes,colours
• Simplification of products, reducedpagination, paper weights
• White paper solutions replacingcolour pre-print
• Duplex printing and patented one-piece mailers
• Distribution review• Postage discounts through
FDM DSA• Phasing in e-communication with
FDM Hi-mail• Continuous improvement planning
Year on year FDM has delivered outstanding results that improve performance, reduce costs and maximise returns. We work withevery customer to investigate projectdelivery with initiatives including:
Resource efficientprint and mailmanagement
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11 postage savings
Postage savings
• FDM is an accredited Royal Mail DSA provider
• End-to-end production with our own sorting machinery
• Solutions for bulk mail and miscellaneous mail
• Use FDM Mail or your own Royal Mail account
• Project coordinated with design specification for machine readability
• OCR and barcoding for optimumdiscounts
All of FDM’s services are producedby us which, as a fully authorised andregulated Downstream Access (DSA)provider, includes the sorting andsending of mail. By using our ownsorting machinery and consolidatingoutput, we can offer significantly improved postage discounts on yourpoll cards, canvass forms and otherelections mail.
FDM is licensed to carry your mail direct to the postman for final mile delivery. Everything is handled in acontrolled environment under oneroof, so you can rest assured thatyour mailing is secure and will beposted on time.
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12hi-mail
FDM Hi-mail
Hi mail
FDM are leadinginnovators of
document processautomation
• The printing, enclosing and postal logistics
• Obtain wholesale print costs• Obtain the best possible postage
discounts• Produce and distribute your post
in a resource friendly way• Provide traceability and report
everything back to you.
For councils anticipating the challenge of controlling output for individual and rolling registration,FDM has an ideal solution.
FDM Hi-mail is a proven process to efficiently manage all ad-hoc print and mail. It allows you to print, post, email or archive all of your documents directly from your business applications, computer,tablet or smartphone and obtain thebenefits of industrial production:
Create and send your electoral letter,we take care of all the rest:
• As simply and productively assending an email
• With significant cost reductions,(at least 35% below the cost ofmanual print and post)
• And productivity gains, (hi-mail takes 45 seconds of staff time)
• Whilst reducing the environmentalimpact of your operation.
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13 customers
Thank you for all your hard work to get our poll cards, postal votes and ballot papers produced on time and as required. Everything went smoothly for usthis year, so thanks again for getting everything sorted as we required andmeeting all our timetables - much appreciated!
- London Borough of Camden
Thank you for everything you’ve done for us. Nice and reliable, thank you!- Wiltshire Council
Thank you and the team for providing us with such excellent service overthe last few months - a job very well done. I was particularly impressed bythe postal vote issue service and would definitely use that again.
- London Borough of Hackney
CustomersTo our customers we are more than just a supplier, we are a partner trusted todeliver the most effective and appropriate solutions, time and again.
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VOTE FOR ONE CANDIDATE ONLY
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BISHOPDavid Laurence Bishop
26 Falcon Grove, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham, NG7 7NB
Elvis Loves Pets Party
EMMETTChristine Emmett
The Windmill, Barrowden Road, Morcott, Rutland,LE15 9DQ
The Conservative Party Candidate
HOPEJill Hope
27 Rectory Lane, Milton Malsor, Northants, NN7 3AQLiberal Democrat
HORNETTJonathan Terence Hornett
2 Roberts Street, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 3HY
The Green Party
KAPURDr Rohen Kapur
22 Ellenborough Road, Wood Green, London, N22 5HA
Young People’s Party UK
LOTUNAdam Ismael Lotun
(address in Kingston and Surbiton)Democracy 2015
MOZZARELLAMr Mozzarella
(address in Vauxhall)Independent
PARKERMargot Parker
Priory Cottage, 17 Church Walk, Weldon, NN17 3JXUK Independence Party (UK I P)
REYNOLDSPeter John Reynolds
(address in Dorset South)Cannabis Law Reform
11RIDDELLGordon Riddell
33 Studfall Avenue, Corby, Northamptonshire, NN17 1LB
British National Party
12SAWFORD
Andy Sawford33 Gipsy Lane, Kettering, Northamptonshire,
NN16 8TYLabour Party Candidate
13SCOTTON
Chris Scotton30 Church Street, Thurmaston, Leicestershire,
LE4 8DPUnited People’s Party
14WICKHAM
David Wickham(address in Corby)
The English Democrats - “Putting England First!”
GILLMANIan Francis Gillman
(address in North West Cambridgeshire)Independent
14elections products
✔ Confirmation Letters
✔ Leaflets & Inserts
✔ Poll Cards
✔ Canvass Forms
Proxy poll card Voting on Thursday 15 November 2012Election of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire police areaVoting Information
Polling day
Polling hours
You should vote on behalf of the person named on the back of this card at this polling station:
7am to 10pm
For information on candidates standing in your area:Go to: www.choosemypcc.org.uk Or call: 0800 1 07 07 08
Please turn over >
Thursday 15 November 2012
If undelivered, please return to: Local Returning Officer, Test Valley Borough Council, Beech Hurst, Weyhill Road, Andover, SP10 9ZX
You do not need to take this card with you to vote.
Your details:
Voting as a proxyThe person named on the back of this card hasappointed you as a proxy. This means you canvote on their behalf at this election.
You cannot be issued with a ballot paper after10pm, even if you are at the polling station before then.
Helpline number: 01264 368000Email: elecreg@testvalley.gov.ukWeb: www.testvalley.gov.ukMinicom: 01264 388052
✔ Ballot Papers
Election of Police and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire police area
SIMMONDS, Adam Brian KeatsThe Conservative Party Candidate
VARNSVERRY, Paul DavidLiberal Democrat
NORRIE, JohnIndependent
MACARTHUR, JimUKIP
BARRON, Lee JasonThe Labour Party Candidate
Column 1
choice
Column 2second choice
Vote once in column 2 for your second choice
✔ Collection of Identifiers
✔ Enclosing Services
✔ Postal Voting Packs
Our Elections Products Include:
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