Official UK procurement notice
Dynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Services
Authority: Southend-on-Sea City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Services
Service Title: Dynamic Market or Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Services
Contract Type: Framework Agreement procured via a Dynamic Market under Light Touch Regime.
6 months (with the option to extend for up to a further 6 months)
Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking bidders to be awarded a place on a Framework to provide Direct Payment Services within the Adult and Social Care Requirement.
Scope:
This Service is commissioned pursuant to:
- Section 31-33 of the Care Act 2014
- The Care and Support (Direct Payments) Regulations 2014
- Section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (where applicable)
- Children and Families Act 2014 (where applicable for children and young people)
Direct Payments are provided to enable the Individual to arrange their own care and support.
Where Personal Assistants are employed, the Individual or their Authorised Person is the legal employer.
Successful suppliers will be made available for selection by the Council's Service users, who will contact and contract with those successful suppliers through this Framework Agreement.
CPV: Payroll management services · Personnel and payroll services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market · pending
- Market period
- 14 Nov 2025 – 1 Dec 2026
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- No Fees will be charged to suppliers through this Agreement.
- Dynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Service · Southend-on-Sea City Council · 14 Nov 2025
Notices that name this market as their framework in the official record. Many call-offs are never published, so this is a floor, not utilisation.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
- Economic & financial standing
Insurance Coverage required upon Contract Award.
Verified by: Copies of relevant insurance information. No requirement for Audited accounts. - Technical & professional ability
Previous experience delivering similar services is required, but not necessarily within the Public Sector or with Local Government Organisations/Contracting Authorities.
Verified by: Up to three examples of previous experience, or if no experience, demonstratable capacity and ability to carry out the service.
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- Economic & financial standing
Insurance Coverage required upon Contract Award.
Verified by: Copies of relevant insurance information. No requirement for Audited accounts. - Technical & professional ability
Previous experience delivering similar services is required, but not necessarily within the Public Sector or with Local Government Organisations/Contracting Authorities.
Verified by: Up to three examples of previous experience, or if no experience, demonstratable capacity and ability to carry out the service.
- “Dynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Services” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Southend-on-Sea City Council buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921), and who usually turns up
Southend-on-Sea City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 60 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–30% / 0%
4–60% / 15%
7+100% / 85%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7921Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid33%
2–39%
4–636%
7+22%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £266m14 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 3 live · £810m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £32m12 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £20m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% below n=2 | |
| £5.5m31 awards in 36m · last this month | 9 live · £291k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £3.6m5 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | 1 live · £3.1m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
University of EssexLarge | £867k6 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 3 live · £207k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Dynamic market
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Nov 2025, 23:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2025, 23:21 GMT
- Authority reference
DN797441- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-073767- Latest notice
- Dynamic market intention notice (UK13)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e0f5Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Admission period ends
- 1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- call-off levy · No Fees will be charged to suppliers through this Agreement.
The above is the ProContract Link, which will instruct bidders to both register with the E-Sourcing Platform, and how to find the opportunity to register an interest and bid.
Timeline
13 Nov 2025 → 1 Dec 2026 · 2 dates- Tender notice published342 days ago13 Nov 2025, 23:21 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 41 days · period end, not a bid countdown1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Dynamic market intention notice published13 Nov 2025, 23:21 GMTUK13
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Attached is a user guide to access the suite of documentation and to express and interest in the opportunity. It will also contain instructions regarding how to register to the E-Sourcing platform, and to search for the opportunity.
Notices published for this procedure
- Dynamic market intention notice Dynamic market intention notice on Find a Tender