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title: "Trace and Process Serve"
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# Trace and Process Serve

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/trace-and-process-serve-ocds-h6vhtk-049287). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Insolvency Service: "Trace and Process Serve". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 20 Sept 2024. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [The Insolvency Service](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-insolvency-service-gov-ea32)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 20 September 2024 at 01:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Administration, defence and social security services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-049287`

## 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/trace-and-process-serve-ocds-h6vhtk-049287#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost.co.uk%2Finsolvencyservice%2Faspx%2FHome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/trace-and-process-serve-ocds-h6vhtk-049287#participate

## Description
The Insolvency Service, wishes to procure the provision of Trace and Process Serve services. The Authority requires "tracing agents" to assist with contacting directors and bankrupts, and in certain cases "process serve" identified subjects both nationally across the UK, and Internationally.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The contract requires all of the following services within one organisation:
•	Desk based tracing of subjects Nationwide (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including the Crown dependencies of Channel Island and Isle of Man). 
•	Field/Phy...
- **Contract Period:** 01/01/2025 to 01/01/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F026649-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-08-21T11:33:36.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T08:54:10.095Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-049287