Notice Information
Notice Title
Business to Business Outsourced Services
Notice Description
This contract has been awarded following the conclusion of a procurement process. B2B will be delivered predominantly in its current form and NS&I expects the supplier to transition the existing solution minimising disruption and maintaining continuity for the government schemes that B2B manages. These are: * Childcare Services (consisting of 30 Hours of Free Childcare and Tax-Free Childcare) * Help to Save * Help to Buy * Court Funds Office Requirements across the schemes include: * Serving Customers o Meeting the service needs and providing support to the end users of the schemes managed by B2B o Engagement with B2B clients in order to operate and eventually transition the solution to Rainbow by the end of the contract * Operational Management o Process transactions - The processing of transactions into, out of and between customer accounts o Manage customer access and accounts - The management of customer accounts and their access to these via a number of channels (predominantly digital) with corresponding support as required * Manage Stakeholders - Supporting NS&I relationships with (and obligations to) key external stakeholders, including the client government departments and HMT as NS&I sponsor. * Organisation - The provision of key enabling capabilities for the services, including for managing people, resources, technology and facilities. * Manage Partners/Suppliers - The management of suppliers and partners, related to the B2B provision. The supplier will be encouraged to maximise the use and efficiency of the existing technology to deliver B2B services throughout the life of the contract.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This contract has been awarded following the conclusion of a procurement process. This package of work is part of NS&I's Rainbow Programme, and it will procure a strategic supplier of managed services to deliver B2B on behalf of NS&I. The B2B services are responsible for the delivery of government schemes, including Childcare Services, Help to Save, Help to Buy ISA, Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, and the Court Funds Office. The contract is offered to one supplier for a period of 3 years following service commencement, with an initial up to 9 month transition period to ensure smooth service commencement from 1st April 2024. At the end of the contract, the B2B services would transition to the Rainbow Programme operating model. National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is one of the UK's largest retail savings organisations with 25 million customers, more than PS202 billion funds under management, best known for Premium Bonds but also offering a range of savings products. NS&I raises financing for Government, by offering secure retail financial savings products, as an alternative to raising funds on the wholesale market. NS&I's core services are currently provided by Atos IT Services UK Limited, which manages sales processing and customer servicing, and IT and infrastructure services. This contract will end on 31st March 2024. NS&I has started a significant transformation of its outsourced services, called the Rainbow Programme. NS&I provides services to other government departments via B2B offer, called Government Payment Services (GPS). NS&I GPS offers modern, secure and competitive banking and payments services to all government departments, agencies and public sector organisations. Current B2B services include, Childcare Services (consisting of 30 Hours of Free Childcare, Tax-Free Childcare), Help to Save, Help to Buy ISA, Mortgage Guarantee Scheme and the Court Funds Office.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-035799
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020901-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
66 - Financial and insurance services
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
48810000 - Information systems
66110000 - Banking services
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
79210000 - Accounting and auditing services
79342300 - Customer services
79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
79510000 - Telephone-answering services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £200,000,000 £100M-£1B
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £92,312,456 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 20 Jul 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 28 Oct 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 5 Sep 2022Expired
- Award Date
- 20 Jun 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- 29 Jun 2023 - 31 Mar 2027 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NS&I
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- dorothy.fox@nsandi.com, tenders@rainbow.nsandi.com
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1V 2QX
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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