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BACS BUREAU SERVICE

Financial and insurance services
Location not published
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: West Northamptonshire Council: "BACS BUREAU SERVICE". Published status: planning. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityWest Northamptonshire CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: West Northamptonshire Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for West Northamptonshire Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
4.8Bids / Report
20% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
Lindum Group LimitedTop vendor: 41.9% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 424 active published awards; 10 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Lindum Group Limited1 win£4,449,453
INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LTD1 win£2,843,811
EASY NETWORKS LIMITED1 win£987,030
East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust1 win£497,752
QA Limited1 win£480,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityWest Northamptonshire Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published2 Apr 2025, 09:47 BST
Last source update2 Apr 2025, 09:47 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationFinancial and insurance services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04fac5
What is being bought
NOTICE OF INTEREST: BACS BUREAU SERVICE Who we are We, as a shared services arrangement of four councils (West Northants, North Northants, Milton Keynes City and Cambridgeshire County), are seeking to gather insights from the BACS Bureau Service market. Please note that we are only assessing the market to gain indicative costs to inform the production of a Business Case. We are not undertaking a procurement exercise at this stage. What we are looking for We are currently seeking to understand indicative supplier pricing for a BACS Bureau Service, to potentially outsource our shared service bureau function currently managed in-house. A. Scope of BACS Bureau Number of clients: 12 Number of Service User Number (SUN): 65 Types of BACs transactions: Direct Debit (80% of total transactions) and Direct Credit (20% of total transactions) Indicative annual transactional volumes: 6 million transactions Indicative annual transactional value: 6 billion GBP B. High level BACS Bureau provision requirements 1. BACS Submission & Processing Act as a BACS Approved Bureau provider Ensure seamless, accurate processing of BACS files without manual intervention. Handle direct submission to BACS under provider's own BUN. 2. Compliance Ensure full compliance with Tier A BACS audit requirements. Provide documentation and support for regulatory inspections. Maintain a secure environment for BACS processing in line with industry standards. 3. Incident Management & Support Offer support for file submission failures and urgent incidents. Maintain SLAs for troubleshooting and resolution of processing issues. 4. Reporting Provide status reports, logs, and audit trails for each submission. Allow access to processing activity logs via API or dashboard. Send email alerts or notifications informing us of processing outcomes. Support BACS report downloads (ideally with advanced distribution capabilities, e.g. per SUN, per Org), unless users are required to retrieve them directly. 5. File Transfer & Integration Accept BACS files via secure transfer (i.e. SFTP, API/Web Services). Ensure seamless API or UI-based extraction of processing activity logs
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    2 Apr 2025, 09:47 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    2 Apr 2025, 09:44 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    2 Apr 2025, 09:42 BST
  4. Status changed to planning
    31 Mar 2025, 15:30 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    31 Mar 2025, 15:30 BST
  6. Buyer information updated
    31 Mar 2025, 15:30 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    2 Apr 2025, 09:47 BST
  2. Procedure published
    2 Apr 2025, 09:47 BST
  3. engagement
    9 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    How responses should be sent We invite you to provide information on your service offerings, price ranges, and experience in delivering BACS Bureau services for customers of similar size and sector. Insights into value-added services are also welcome. Please submit your response via the Microsoft Form below by close of business Wednesday, April 9th, 2025: https://forms.office.com/e/JYSGNtqM3g Please note that participation and responses to this advertisement does not guarantee inclusion in future procurement activities.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

West Northamptonshire Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PGDV-8944-CMBP
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Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published