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Published 4 Sept 2023, 10:06 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Core Claims Services · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Financial Services Compensation Scheme (Public body)

ServicesCompetitive procedure with negotiation
Published estimate£50,000,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 4 Oct 2023awarded 14 Jun 2024
Awarded to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The scope of the services are:

  • Deposit Claims Processing
  • Advice Claims Processing
  • Overflow Customer Contact

*Support Services

CPV: Customer-care services · Financial and insurance services · Financial consultancy services · Financial market regulatory services · Financial markets administration services · Insurance and pension services · Insurance consultancy services · Pension fund consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1The scope of the services are:AwardedRenewalPublished value£50,000,000

The scope of the services are:

  • Deposit Claims Processing
  • Not Fit For Straight Through Pay-out (NFFSTP) Claims
  • Exclusion View (EV) Claims
  • Temporary High Balances (THB) Claims
  • Customer engagement activities, such as inbound and outbound calls, in the course of processing the above claims
  • Advice Claims Processing
  • Early file preparation and triage activity (Pre-assessment tasks)
  • End to End processing on a proportion of claims where the approach to assessing the claim is more well-defined and standardised, and volumes are sufficient
  • Customer Engagement activities such as making Touch Point Calls or responding to incoming calls in the course of processing the above claims
  • Resolving post decision correspondence and processing Appeals for the Claims processed by the Service Provider
  • Overflow Customer Contact
  • Providing suitable telephony and administration support to deal effectively with inbound customer queries when volumes exceed the capacity that can be dealt with by FSCS internal teams.

*Support Services

  • Providing appropriate capable staff to work with and assist FSCS with in-house tasks relating to potential and actual defaults, which may include project management and determining processes and procedures for complex failures.
Delivery: UK · UNITED KINGDOM
Extensions: The duration of the initial term will be 60 months . After the initial terms, there will be an option for FSCS to extend the contract on up to two occasions for a maximum duration of [12] months on each of those occasionsSecond stage: up to 5 candidates invited to tenderVariant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 70%Price: 30%
Published sub-criteria (10)
  • Resourcing: 7%
  • Service Delivery: 28%
  • Transition: 14%
  • Business Continuity: 7%
  • Information Security: 7%
  • Service Improvements: 7%
  • Pre-assessment Tasks: 10%
  • Claims Processing Activities: 10%
  • Rate Card: 5%
  • Transition: 5%
Published award criteria (10)
  • Resourcing: 7
  • Service Delivery: 28
  • Transition: 14
  • Business Continuity: 7
  • Information Security: 7
  • Service Improvements: 7
  • Pre-assessment Tasks: 10
  • Claims Processing Activities: 10
  • Rate Card: 5
  • Transition: 5
Successive reduction
Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Competitive procedure with negotiation
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes
First published
4 Sept 2023, 10:06 BST
Last source update
24 Jun 2024, 12:05 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-019281
Classification (CPV)
Customer-care servicesFinancial and insurance servicesFinancial consultancy servicesFinancial market regulatory servicesFinancial markets administration servicesInsurance and pension servicesInsurance consultancy servicesPension fund consultancy services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03f994 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

In accordance with Regulation 86 (Notices of decisions to award a contract), Regulation 87 (Standstill Period) and Regulations 91 (Enforcement of duties through the Court) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Publisher note: The initial contract duration is until 31st March 2030. There will be an option for FSCS to extend the contract from the expiry of the Initial Term on up to 2 occasions for a maximum duration of up to 12 months on each of those occasions. Please note the total contract value does not include the expenditure which may go through under a rate card. The expenditure for this element is estimated between £0 and £15m. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=869240502 GO Reference: GO-2024624-PRO-26692477

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
4 Oct 2023, 14:00 BST
Submission channel
{"written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
180 days from the deadline

Timeline

4 Oct 2023 → 24 Jun 2024 · 2 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    4 Oct 2023, 14:00 BST
  2. Notice published
    24 Jun 2024, 12:05 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    24 Jun 2024, 12:05 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £83,600,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 3
Contracts signed 1latest 14 Jun 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP£83,600,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
3bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawEconomic affairs Beaufort House, 15 St. Botolph Street, London, UK, EC3A 7QUContact email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • The Royal Court of JusticeReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria