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Payroll Services Framework

Buyer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust →

BuyerGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published14 Aug 2025

What is being bought

NHS London Procurement Partnership (hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust) has established a multiple supplier framework for the provision of Payroll Services. The framework agreement covers core payroll, pension and expenses administration plus related HR administration/maintenance through the ESR system.<br/><br/>The Payroll Services Framework is not split in to any Lots. <br/><br/>Please find the awarded suppliers listed below:<br/><br/>CR Payroll Solutions Limited<br/>ELFS Business Services Ltd<br/>NHS Shared Business Services<br/>Payroll Easy Group Limited<br/>University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Personnel and payroll services 79631000Payroll management services 79211110

Lot details

Lot 1

NHS London Procurement Partnership (hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust) has established a Framework Agreement for the provision of payroll services. This framework is not split in to any Lots.<br/><br/>The framework for the provision of payroll services has the following expected business benefits:<br/><br/>Financial Benefits<br/>The Framework has established ceiling prices that a supplier may not exceed when delivering services to any participating authority. <br/>As much of the procurement work has already been done, NHS and wider public sector contracting authorities are able to save on time and costs associated with running a full procurement.<br/><br/>Rates<br/>Suppliers have rate cards that provide a set of ceiling prices for the service available, which means organisations can have confidence regarding the maximum price they will pay for a service. This information can also be used to benchmark existing service provision and to enhance value for money.<br/>Contracting authorities may also consider how they work together with other organisations in order to realise volume-based pricing.<br/><br/>Other Benefits<br/>The Framework should reduce the administrative burden and reduce duplication of effort as standard service specifications and performance indicators have already been established.<br/>The Framework ensures all the providers have achieved a minimum standard in terms of competence and financial viability<br/>The breadth of services and the flexibility built into the framework enables contracting authorities to think more pro-actively about how they might outsource some of their back-office processes.<br/><br/>The framework agreement allows for both further competition and direct award to all awarded suppliers.<br/><br/>The framework agreement will go live from 18/08/2025 and will last for a period of 4 years.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Technical — 60%
Social Value — 10%
Commercial — 30%

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Personnel and payroll servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Personnel and payroll services (79631000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 798,3554 median · 35.6 average (3,206 of 8,355 with a bid count)3.3 average (3,604 of 8,355 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer94 median · 5.3 average (3 of 9 with a bid count)1 average (4 of 9 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK2,3494 median · 71.8 average (860 of 2,349 with a bid count)5.2 average (1,024 of 2,349 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

048875-2025-1

Statusactive

048875-2025-2

Statusactive

048875-2025-3

Statusactive

048875-2025-4

Statusactive

048875-2025-5

Statusactive

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e597
Latest release ID048875-2025
Latest release timestampThu Aug 14 2025 15:05:50 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release5
Contracts in latest release5
Parties in latest release7

Notice history

DateEventReference
14 Aug 2025award, contract048875-2025
20 Feb 2025tender006434-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
14 Aug 2025 · 048875-2025 · award, contract
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20 Feb 2025 · 006434-2025 · tender
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