Administration of the Civil Service Pensions Schemes

CPV: Pension fund administration services

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

27 Jan 2021, 22:56 GMT

Last source update

27 Jan 2021, 22:56 GMT

FTS notice number

2021/S 000-001698

Classification (CPV)

Pension fund administration services

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

Additional deliveries by the original supplier ordered under the strict conditions stated in the directive

Published justification

Cabinet Office is responsible for the management of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) and the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme (RMSPS). MyCSP Ltd administers the CSPS, and the contract expires on 31 December 2021. Additional work has become necessary to allow Cabinet Office to meet its obligations in response to the McCloud judgment on the transitional protection elements of the 2015 public sector pension scheme reforms (the “2015 Remedy”). An alternative provider cannot deliver this work for technical reasons, and without causing significant inconvenience or duplication of costs. The principle technical issue is the need to administer the 2015 Remedy from early 2021 alongside the core scheme administration, which timeline precludes the opportunity to procure and transition the services to an alternative provider. It is expected the 2015 Remedy will take three years to complete. Continuing with the current provider allows the Cabinet Office to meet the immediate needs of scheme members who have already taken pensions and may need to have their pensions adjusted under the 2015 Remedy or who have been denied ill health retirement pensions which may be granted due to the 2015 Remedy. In addition to meeting the needs of those retiring over the coming few years. For a third party to deliver the 2015 Remedy separately from the core pension administration would require substantial duplication of costs and be technically difficult due to the need to; replicate the scheme calculations through a second pension administration system; transition and duplicate scheme data; maintain two parallel databases; and interface data between two administrators to ensure consistent and accurate communication with members and employers to calculate the benefits. Accordingly, Cabinet Office has entered into an agreement with MyCSP to extend the contract by two years and to deliver the 2015 Remedy programme. Cabinet Office expects to commence a new procurement exercise for the administration of both CSPS and RMSPS in Q2 of 2021. As set out in the additional information section, Cabinet Office will carry out pre-market engagement to inform the procurement exercise for replacement CSPS and RMSPS contract(s).

• MyCSP LimitedAwarded supplier Park Square, Bird Hall Lane, Stockport, UK, SK3 0XM

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