Official UK procurement notice
Employee Benefits Service · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Financial Services Compensation Scheme (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is conducting preliminary market engagement in connection with a proposed contract for Employee Benefits Services.
FSCS is the UK's statutory compensation scheme for customers of failed authorised financial services firms. FSCS is subject to the Procurement Act 2023.
FSCS is seeking a contract for Employee Benefits Services, including undertaking a review of the range, extent and structure of their benefit package programme to employees.
This notice does not constitute a call for competition or a commitment to run a competitive procurement. No contractual relationship will arise from participation in this market engagement exercise. FSCS reserves the right to modify its requirements, draft Contract, or procurement approach in light of the responses received.
To view FSCS draft contract notice and specification, please click here:
CPV: Benefit services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Financial Services Compensation Scheme buys Benefit services (CPV 7531), and who usually turns up
Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Benefit services (CPV 7531) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 43 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid26%
2–334%
4–628%
7+13%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate43%
Within ±2%50%
Above estimate7%
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 7531Published estimate£1.0m
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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. The bar shows 47 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–334%
4–628%
7+13%
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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.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 Apr 2026, 17:30 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Apr 2026, 17:30 BST
- Authority reference
FSCS572- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031667- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067d65Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Apr 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published199 days ago7 Apr 2026, 17:30 BST
- Market engagement185 days ago20 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested suppliers should register their interest in this preliminary market engagement exercise by contacting FSCS via the messaging function of our eSourcing portal; Delta (www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London… ↗) by 2pm on Monday 20th April 2026.
Upon registration, suppliers will be access the specification, supplier questionnaire and a copy of the draft Contract.
Next steps:
Following the conclusion of the preliminary market engagement exercise, FSCS will consider feedback received and, where appropriate and if deemed necessary at the sole discretion of FSCS, take into account the results of the exercise when deciding how to proceed with the contract.
Note:
Participation in this market engagement exercise does not guarantee inclusion in any subsequent formal procurement process.
FSCS will not reimburse any costs incurred by suppliers in participating in this engagement exercise.
All communications during the market engagement period should be directed to the messaging function on the portal only.
- Contract starts22 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Apr 2026, 17:30 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender