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Published 5 Jun 2024, 14:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Finance System for Brunel Pension Partnership

Official notice

Authority: BRUNEL PENSION PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

GoodsCompetitive procedure with negotiation
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submissions closed 8 Jul 2024

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Brunel requires a supplier to provide a Finance System which needs to meet a range of requirements to support Brunel's financial management and reporting needs.

CPV: Accounting software package · Financial systems software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Brunel requires a finance system to support its financial management and reporting needsRenewal

Brunel requires a finance system to support its financial management and reporting needs. The system will primarily be for use by Brunel's Finance team, with wider access to the organisation for purchase order and goods received notes.

The finance system must be capable of the following:

Cloud-based vendor-managed solution with critical support access 24x7.

Multi-currency capabilities.

Provide export, drill down and drill back capabilities into Microsoft Excel.

Multi-year & cross year reporting.

Real time dashboards with key business metrics and report snapshots.

Support production of statutory financial accounts with compliance to UK GAAP.

Support creation of corporate tax returns and analysis, including VAT MTD submissions.

Provide departmental reporting, and support budgeting and forecast variance analysis.

Management and processing of purchase orders, goods received notes, payment of invoices, bank reconciliations, BACS payments, production of sales invoices and expenses sign-off.

Ability to upload transactions via csv upload.

Fixed asset management including asset process accounting automation and real time asset reporting.

Access to sandbox environment.

Access to online learning training services.

Ability to support future growth with modular approach for areas such as planning and budgeting, payroll and procurement.

Able to integrate with BACS software (e.g. Bottomline) as a bureau via automated process.

Bank feed facility to pull transactions for bank reconciliation. Additional information: Tenderers who express their interest will be issued with a selection questionnaire (SQ). Responses to the SQ will be evaluated against the criteria detailed in the SQ and suppliers who are successfully selected to continue through to the invitation to tender (ITT) phase will be issued with the ITT Pack.

Tenderers wishing to express their interest should provide their full company name and address and most suitable contact details

to [email protected]

Delivery: South West
Extensions: The contracting authority's current expectation is that the contract will have an initial term of 36 months, with an option for the contracting authority to extend the contract by up to 24 months, resulting in a maximum potential contract term of 60 months. However, the contracting authority reserves the right to reconsider this prior to issuing the Invitation to Tender · The contracting authority's current expectation is that the contract will have an initial term of 36 months, with an option for the contracting authority to extend the contract by up to 24 months, resulting in a maximum potential contract term of 60 months. However, the contracting authority reserves the right to reconsider this prior to issuing the Invitation to TenderSecond stage: 3–8 candidates invited to tenderVariant bids: not allowed

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Competitive procedure with negotiation
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Closed
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
5 Jun 2024, 14:53 BST
Last source update
5 Jun 2024, 14:53 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-017454
Classification (CPV)
Accounting software packageFinancial systems software package
Delivery area
South West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046da8 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Language: EN
Submission deadline
8 Jul 2024, 10:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en
Participation fee
document
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

5 Jun 2024 → 8 Jul 2024 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    5 Jun 2024, 14:53 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    8 Jul 2024, 10:00 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

BRUNEL PENSION PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawBrunel is the discretionary investment manager for ten local authority pension funds. 5th Floor, 101 Victoria Street, BRISTOL, South West, BS16PUContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.