Official UK procurement notice
AWARDED: TRHR3294 - Department for Transport Employee Benefits Programme
Authority: Department for Transport (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract provides Department for Transport employees with a range of managed employee benefits, including:
- An Employee Benefits Platform;
- Employee Discounts;
- A Reward and Recognition scheme;
- A Cycle to Work Scheme (available as a Salary Sacrifice);
- Discounted Gym Memberships;
- A Childcare Voucher Scheme (available as a Salary Sacrifice);
- A Payroll Giving Scheme;
- Discounted Dental Insurance.
This contract was awarded following a mini-competition under Crown Commercial Services Employee Benefits and Services Framework agreement RM6273. It has an initial term of 2 years, from 01 August 2024 to 31 July 2026, with options to extend for up to two further years in one year intervals.
The advertised maximum contract value includes spend incurred by DfT employees (either via. direct purchase on the employee benefits platform or through schemes, such as salary sacrifice or net pay deduction, whereby spend is incurred through DfT accounts and reclaimed by DfT via. payroll deduction), as well as management fees and likely DfT expenditure on the reward and recognition scheme. Actual spend will be largely determined by employee use of the benefits available to them under this contract.
CPV: Miscellaneous business and business-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 5 Aug 2024, 13:57 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Aug 2024, 13:57 BST
- Authority reference
TRHR3294- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-024509- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0487a2Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This contract was awarded following a mini-competition under an existing framework (CCS framework agreement RM6273). When awarding a contract based on a framework, it is not required to publish a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reward Gateway (UK) LTDProvision of Employee Benefits to the Department for Transport | £3,500,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Provision of Employee Benefits to the Department for Transport · Reward Gateway (UK) LTD
- Signed
- 29 Jul 2024
- Value
- £3,500,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High Court of England and WalesReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Reward Gateway (UK) LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.