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# BACS BUREAU SERVICE

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/bacs-bureau-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04fac5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** NOTICE OF INTEREST: BACS BUREAU SERVICE. 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. Support BACS report downloads (ideally with advanced distribution capabilities, e.g. per SUN, per Org), unless users are required to retrieve them directly.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [West Northamptonshire Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/west-northamptonshire-council-ons-e06000062)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Financial and insurance services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/bacs-bureau-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04fac5#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04fac5`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/bacs-bureau-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04fac5#tl-md)

## Description
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

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 66000000

- **Contract Period:** 03/11/2025 to 02/11/2029

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F012412-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-04-02T08:47:45.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-07T03:35:18.655Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04fac5