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title: "Market Engagement Exercise for Appointeeship Banking Services"
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# Market Engagement Exercise for Appointeeship Banking Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-exercise-for-appointeeship-banking-services-ocds-h6vhtk-050904). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Sunderland City Council: "Market Engagement Exercise for Appointeeship Banking Services". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Sunderland City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/sunderland-city-council-ons-e08000024)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Banking services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-exercise-for-appointeeship-banking-services-ocds-h6vhtk-050904#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-050904`

## 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/market-engagement-exercise-for-appointeeship-banking-services-ocds-h6vhtk-050904#tl-md)

## Description
The Financial Safeguarding Team (FST) is part of Adult Services within Sunderland City Council (The Council).
The FST has a responsibility to effectively manage the finances of clients where the council act as deputy or appointee. These roles include opening a bank account for the client, setting up regular payments for their utilities and care fees, making one off payments, ensuring the client has access to weekly money via a pre-paid card or card account and receiving benefits into the client's bank account on their behalf.
Scope of the System
The FST require a robust, bespoke, intelligent, value for money, web-based solution to positively support the FST to manage all aspects of a client's property and financial affairs in accordance with the Council and OPG standards.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
The Council are seeking feedback from the market regarding the proposed solution a detailed within associated documentation.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 66110000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 30/04/2026 to 31/03/2030

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F019999-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-05-09T10:37:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T11:17:35.260Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-050904