Notice Information
Notice Title
Proxy voting
Notice Description
At Nest, we take our responsibilities as an asset owner seriously. Appointing the right people to invest and manage our members' money is important. As clients, we work closely with our fund managers to help us support good corporate behaviour. As investors in globally diversified equity funds, we hold and own thousands of shares on our members' behalf. We entrust our fund managers to vote these shares thoughtfully and largely in accordance with their own documented policies. We expect them to be mindful of clients' beliefs and expectations. Having our own policy enables Nest to document our position and expectations to our fund managers on good corporate behaviour and hold them to account on the decisions they make. It is important that we fulfil our trustee obligations and responsibilities as signatories to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) stewardship code by monitoring and challenging our fund managers as they discharge their stewardship on our members' behalf. We require support to hold our fund managers to account on the voting decisions they take. Each year we focus our efforts on a subset of shares
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05cd70
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015878-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
-
- CPV Codes
66171000 - Financial consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £240,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £240,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- £232,875 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- £232,875 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 22 Feb 2026Today
- Submission Deadline
- 17 Nov 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 19 Dec 20252 months ago
- Contract Period
- 29 Jan 2026 - 28 Jan 2029 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SAVINGS TRUST (NEST) CORPORATION
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- procurement@nestcorporation.org.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- E14 4PU
- Post Town
- East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI42 Tower Hamlets
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Electoral Ward
- Canary Wharf
- Westminster Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015878-2026
22nd February 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001434-2026
8th January 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/065651-2025
15th October 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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