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# Debt collection services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/debt-collection-services-ocds-h6vhtk-034e02). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED: "Debt collection services". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: £3,000,000. 2 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Aug 2022, 10:00 BST. Published submission portal: discovery.ariba.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/severn-trent-water-limited-coh-02366686)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £3,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 August 2022 at 10:00 BST
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Collection agency services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/debt-collection-services-ocds-h6vhtk-034e02#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-034e02`

## 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/debt-collection-services-ocds-h6vhtk-034e02#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [discovery.ariba.com](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ariba.com%2Frfx%2F13471744)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/debt-collection-services-ocds-h6vhtk-034e02#participate

## Description
Framework agreement for debt collection services

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Trace services
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79940000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £1,500,000
- **Description:** This is award forms part of the debt collection agency tender. This lot is for "Trace and collection" services i.e. finding debtors no longer residing at the address (es) where the debt was incurred.

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Primary and secondary collect
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79940000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £1,500,000
- **Description:** This is for debt collection agency services, namely the collection of unpaid water bills.

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** Primary and Secondary Debt Collection Services (active)
  - Award id: `004293-2023-1`
  - Supplier(s): **1ST LOCATE (UK) LIMITED, MOORCROFT DEBT RECOVERY LIMITED, ORBIT CREDIT SERVICES LIMITED (+1 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-45737`, `GB-FTS-173574`, `GB-FTS-73456`, `GB-FTS-173575`
  - Value: £1,500,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Trace and Collection Services (active)
  - Award id: `004293-2023-2`
  - Supplier(s): **1ST LOCATE (UK) LIMITED, ORBIT CREDIT SERVICES LIMITED, PASTDUE CREDIT SOLUTIONS LIMITED (+1 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-45737`, `GB-FTS-73456`, `GB-FTS-123996`, `GB-FTS-173575`

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** Primary and Secondary Debt Collection Services (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,500,000
  - Signed Date: 28/11/2022

- **Contract:** Trace and Collection Services (active)

  - Signed Date: 28/11/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F004293-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-02-13T08:32:28.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T21:28:04.573Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-034e02