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Provision of Financial Services

Financial and insurance services
Financial consultancy
financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
+2 more
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Avon Fire & Rescue Service: "Provision of Financial Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityAvon Fire & Rescue ServiceScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Avon Fire & Rescue Service
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Published history for Avon Fire & Rescue Service. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.5Bids / Report
50% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 3 active published awards; 2 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityAvon Fire & Rescue Service
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published21 Mar 2024, 17:18 GMT
Last source update21 Mar 2024, 17:18 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationFinancial and insurance services, Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services, Financial management consultancy services, Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Delivery area
UK
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What is being bought
This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice to inform the market that Avon Fire Authority, operating as Avon Fire & Rescue Service, is intending to award a public contract by use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication, in accordance with Regulation 32 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The object of the public contract is the provision of financial services, which is a public service contract. The general grounds are that the services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator, namely Bristol City Council, for the following reason: ‘Competition is absent for technical reasons’ – this is explained below in the ‘Description of the procurement’. The Authority’s intention to award the contract is also covered by Regulation 72(1)(b) of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 which allows for ‘modification of contracts during their term’ without a new procurement procedure due to ‘technical reasons’.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    21 Mar 2024, 17:18 GMT
  2. Status changed to complete
    8 Dec 2022, 13:39 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    8 Dec 2022, 13:39 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    8 Dec 2022, 13:39 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Avon Fire Authority, operating as Avon Fire & Rescue Service, is intending to award a public contract for the provision of financial services, in accordance with Regulation 32 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This decision is due to technical reasons, namely that we have a shared finance database and software solution, which has meant that additional services beyond March 2023, which were not included in the original tender from Bristol City Council (the sole bid received in 2018/2019), have become necessary, where a change of contractor, cannot be made at this time. The current financial services contract with Bristol City Council expires in March 2023, however, the Service is currently in the process of a Finance Improvement Programme, including a move to devolved budgets, which will substantially change the Services’ financial services specification/requirements over the next 12-24 months. It is therefore not possible to attempt to ‘fix’ a financial services specification for a formal tender exercise at this time, as the Services’ requirements will be much clearer once the Finance Improvement Programme work is completed. The Service therefore intends to extend the current financial services contract with Bristol City Council for 2 years, until March 2025, to cover this period of change and during this period conduct a tender exercise which would cover new requirements identified during the Finance Improvement Programme. It is also possible that extending the contract timeline will also allow the Service an opportunity to investigate collaborative working opportunities, including sharing financial services, with another public sector organisation. The Financial Services contract will therefore be extended until March 2025, to provide the services already outlined in the extant contract, including: • Payroll and allowances • Accounting • Treasury Management • Creditors, and • General revenue services
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    21 Mar 2024, 17:18 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 21 Mar 2024, 00:00 GMT · £500,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Bristol City Council
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Provision of Financial Services
£500,000 · signed 21 Mar 2024, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Avon Fire & Rescue Service

Contracting authority GB-FTS-8590
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  • Avon Fire & Rescue Service
    buyer

    VAT No: 664419911
    Valley Road, Portishead, Bristol, UK, BS20 8JJ
    tanya.nathan@avonfire.gov.uk
    +44 1179262061

  • Avon Fire and Rescue Services
    reviewBody

    Valley Road, Portishead, BS20 8JJ
    supplies@avonfire.gov.uk

  • Bristol City Council
    supplier

    Bristol City Council
    City Hall, College Green, Bristol, UK, BS1 5TR
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleAvon Fire Authority, operating as Avon Fire & Rescue Service, is intending to award a publiccontract for the provision of financial services, in accordance with Regulation 32 of ThePublic Contracts Regulations 2015. This decision is due to technical reasons, namely that we have a shared finance database and software solution, which has meant that additional services beyond March 2023, which were not included in the original tender from Bristol City Council (the sole bid received in2018/2019), have become necessary, where a change of contractor, cannot be made at this time.