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2025-TR-0033 Overseas Payment Provider

Buyer: Student Loan Company Limited →

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BuyerStudent Loan Company Limited
StatusClosed
Deadline9 Jan 2026
Value£2,310,000
Published28 Nov 2025

What is being bought

The Student Loans Company (SLC)is a non-profit making government owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK. We have 9.7 million customers, manage a loan book worth £260.8bn and manage the full end to end “apply, assess, pay and repay “process. SLC is seeking a supplier to provide a repayment service for SLC customers, who live abroad ,that allows them to make low-cost repayments in the foreign currency of their choosing and for this to be quickly repaid to SLC in sterling. The service must capture all customer contact information and SLC customer reference number, these details to be captured for every transaction made and sent onto SLC to allow SLC to quickly identify the customer account to be credited. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Darlington:-International-payment-transfer-services./84264F5ZB5 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/84264F5ZB5

Delivery location

UKM8, GB · UKL, GB · UKC13, GB

Categories

International payment transfer services 66115000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£2,310,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jul 2026 to 30 Jun 2031

Award criteria
Compliance with Mandatory requirements = Pass/Fail Criteria (1)
Cost to the customer (2)
Ability to deliver the desirable technical requirements (file formats; transfer information, integration requirements & accessibility) (3)
Service Delivery (4)
Management information/ Customer Relationship Management (5)
Cyber security (6)
Implementation plan /integration (7)
Demonstration (8)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1International payment transfer servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 66. The category anchor is International payment transfer services (66115000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 668512 median · 7.7 average (229 of 851 with a bid count)1.8 average (269 of 851 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKM80Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)100Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05eb56
Latest release ID078224-2025
Latest release timestampFri Nov 28 2025 16:05:12 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078224-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-01-09T12:00:00+00:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,310,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
28 Nov 2025tender078224-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
28 Nov 2025 · 078224-2025 · tender
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