Notice Information
Notice Title
Core Banking, Payment, Reporting and Business-to-Business Services
Notice Description
A new agreement for extended provision of the Business Process Outsourcing Agreement originally established between NS&I and Atos dated 20 May 2013 (as amended and restated) until March 2028 (with a 12-month extension for continuity if required), to provide for the transformation of the Core Banking platform and associated technologies, and for the continued provision of the Government Payment Services (B2B) services, on an as-is basis, in accordance with the terms of the Business Process Outsourcing Agreement.
Lot Information
Lot 1
A new agreement for extended provision of the Business Process Outsourcing Agreement originally established between NS&I and Atos dated 20 May 2013 (as amended and restated) until March 2028 (with a 12-month extension for continuity if required), to provide for the transformation of the Core Banking platform and associated technologies, and for the continued provision of the Government Payment Services (B2B) services, on an as-is basis, in accordance with the terms of the Business Process Outsourcing Agreement.
Options: A discretionary 12-month extension option is available for continuity if required.
Procurement Information
Competition is absent for technical reasons. As the incumbent service provider Atos and its key sub-contractor(s) are the providers of the existing NS&I Core Banking platforms, which rely on interdependent leveraged technology and resources. The process of dis-aggregating these at the same time as building and deploying a new Core Banking instance would be sufficiently complex that it can only be practicably carried out by Atos IT Services UK without very significant disruption to NS&I customers. It is to be noted that the contract award is of relatively short duration, so that the services, once dis-aggregated and upgraded, can be taken back to market and re-procured. NS&I intends to publish a Planned Procurement Notice in due course, in this regard.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04d633
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002584-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
-
- CPV Codes
66100000 - Banking and investment services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £474,380,000 £100M-£1B
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 24 Jan 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 23 Dec 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- 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
- Contact Name
- Jamie Thomas
- Contact Email
- jamie.thomas@nsandi.com
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 3BT
- 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
- TLI32 Westminster
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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