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Published 8 Apr 2022, 12:18 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Quality Assurance Service · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE (Central government)

Services
Sectors: Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 22 Aug 2022from the planned procurement notice
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

The Money and Pensions Service is currently in the process of developing a strategy for the procurement of a Quality Assurance Service and is seeking the input of the market to help shape this strategy. The service will cover a wide range of services including regulated debt advice, pensions guidance, pensions freedoms and money guidance. The service will need to be designed to provide assurance that the Quality frameworks being used by delivery partners whether internal or external are effective, robust and in line with contract expectations. MaPS is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a Request for Information (RFI) to gather market intelligence/information, to gain a better understanding of the capacity and appetite of the market to deliver the proposed service to ensure high quality advice and guidance is delivered.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Money and Pensions Service is currently in the process of developing a strategy for the procurement of a Quality Assurance Service and is seeking the input of the market to help shape this strategy.

The service will cover a wide range of services including regulated debt advice, pensions guidance, pensions freedoms and money guidance. The Supplier will be responsible for the delivery of an independent Quality Assurance service across all delivery channels for MaPS which will check that all service lines are meeting (as a minimum) the requirements of the FCA approved MaPS Standards: moneyandpensionsservice.org.uk/money-and-pensions-s… ↗ These channels can include but are not limited to; face to face provision, telephone, written communications including the use of web chat and digital provisions. The service will need to be designed to provide assurance that the Quality frameworks being used by delivery partners whether internal or external are effective, robust and in line with contract expectations.

CPV: Other community, social and personal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned
Delivery: UK · requirement will have a national coverage

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 Apr 2022, 12:18 BST
Last source update
8 Apr 2022, 12:18 BST
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-009477
Classification (CPV)
Other community, social and personal services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032ba0 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Apr 2022 → 22 Aug 2022 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    8 Apr 2022, 12:18 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    22 Aug 2022, 00:00 BST

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

Money and Pensions Service

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsEconomic affairs Holborn Centre, 120 Holbornholborn Centre, 120 Holborn, LONDON, London, EC1N2TDContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.