Official UK procurement notice
Quality Assurance Service · UK public procurement notice
Authority: MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE (Central government)
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 descriptionThe 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 publishedLot #1Planned
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)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032ba0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Apr 2022 → 22 Aug 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published8 Apr 2022, 12:18 BST
- Tender notice expected22 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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.