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# Simple Payment Plan

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/simple-payment-plan-ocds-h6vhtk-031574). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): "Simple Payment Plan". Published status: complete. Published Value: £42,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 9 Mar 2022, 11:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.bbc.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-british-broadcasting-corporation-bbc-GB-FTS-3323)
- **Published Value:** £42,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 9 March 2022 at 11:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive procedure with negotiation
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Collection agency services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £42,000,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/simple-payment-plan-ocds-h6vhtk-031574#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-031574`

## 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/simple-payment-plan-ocds-h6vhtk-031574#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [bbc.co.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fsupplying%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/simple-payment-plan-ocds-h6vhtk-031574#participate

## Description
Provision of administration services for the “Simple Payment Plan”.
The Simple Payment Plan provides a payment scheme for a selected group of customers that is simple, affordable and flexible. To deliver against these key features, the Simple Payment Plan has been designed to:-
- target low income households to help increase revenue income and reduce both first time prosecutions and repeat offending;
- allow customers to spread their payments over the 12 month term of their licence, i.e. £159/12;
- run for a term of 4 years, with the option to extend on two occasions of one year each.
The Service Provider will manage the accounts of customers on the scheme end-to-end. Specifically, Service Providers will be required to offer the following services:
i. collecting the licence fee, according to the regulations and as set out in any individual customer payment plans (including arrears management, payment processing and reconciliation services);
ii. campaign management services;
iii. fulfilment services;
iv. inbound and outbound customer communications services (including call centre facilities); 
v. technology services;
vi. data management; and
vii. analytics
It should be noted that the following services are not in scope for the Service Provider:
i. field services;
ii. PR and stakeholder communications; and
iii. customer recruitment
The main objective of SPP is to ensure appropriate levels of support are provided to eligible customers, with particular focus on individuals who are willing to pay, but who are facing financial difficulty.
Critical Success Factors of Simple Payment Plan:-
- Improved customer satisfaction;
- Positive impact on evasion and/or improvement in rate of licence purchase following prosecution statement (from TV Licensing Administrator);
- Improving Customer retention and revenue rates;
- Reducing the number of Customers that fail to pay anything towards their licence – referred to as Leavers Never Paid (LNP);
- Promoting Customers renewing their licences;
- Facilitating Customers managing their payment account digitally end to end.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The Service Provider will collect the licence fee from customers on the Simple Payment Plan via a range of payment methods and channels, and be responsible for:-
i. Issuing licences and payment plans to recruited customers on the scheme;
ii. Providin...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 014610-2024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Wescot Credit Services Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-113081`
  - Value: £42,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 014610-2024-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £42,000,000
  - Signed Date: 18/04/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F014610-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-05-08T08:47:53.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T11:41:09.722Z
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