Notice Information
Notice Title
Flexible Employee Benefits Platform
Notice Description
Curo Group (Albion) Limited ("Curo") wish to engage the market to help inform their requirement for a flexible employee benefits platform. Curo employ approximately 800 colleagues, which include a mixture of office based workers and field based operatives. Curo have a future requirement for a Supplier to implement, manage, administer and maintain an on-line employee benefits platform for the benefit of Curo's employees. It is desired that the Supplier will offer a fully managed service, which will include brokerage, consultancy, help desk and on-going administration assistance. The requirement will be pivotal in helping Curo deliver their Purposeful Culture strategic objective and in creating a high-performing and engaged organisation which attracts, develops and retains diverse, talented people
Planning Information
Curo are inviting interested Suppliers to complete a Request for Information (RFI) questionnaire. The RFI questionnaire can be located by following the below link. https://forms.office.com/e/FK87vBeCiT Suppliers wishing to participate in this market engagement must first ensure that they read and understand the 'Flexible Employee Benefits Platform - Request For Information' document before they answer the RFI questions. The Flexible Employee Benefits Platform - Request For Information document can be found by registering free of charge on the Curo supplier portal and searching for project CURO - 00000402. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/curo/aspx/Home Suppliers that participate in this RFI (subject to availability) might be invited to demo their product offering to Curo stakeholders in June.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-067835
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029276-2026
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
75 - Administration, defence and social security services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
48000000 - Software package and information systems
72260000 - Software-related services
75310000 - Benefit services
79414000 - Human resources management consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £135,840 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 30 Mar 20264 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 15 Apr 20262 weeks to go
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 31 Mar 2027 - 1 Apr 2031 4-5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CURO GROUP (ALBION) LTD
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BATH
- Postcode
- BA2 1EP
- Post Town
- Bath
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK5 West of England
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire
- Delivery Location
- TLK1 Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
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- Local Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Electoral Ward
- Westmoreland
- Westminster Constituency
- Bath
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029276-2026
30th March 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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