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title: "319_27 Staff Benefits"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06968b"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, TRADING AS ESPO"
published: "2026-06-25"
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# 319_27 Staff Benefits

Buyer: LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, TRADING AS ESPO  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06968b

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## Summary

The procurement process initiated by Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO, focuses on establishing a framework for providing staff benefits schemes, covering a range of goods and services accessible through salary sacrifice, voluntary benefits, or net payroll deductions. These services fall under the industry category of "services" and are planned for delivery throughout the United Kingdom. The procurement is currently in the planning stage, with market engagement underway to benefit potential suppliers. The framework’s preliminary market engagement phase requires responses to a Request for Information (RFI) by 17:00 on 10 July 2026, via the EastMidsTenders eProcurement Portal. The contract period is anticipated to start on 7 August 2027 and run through to 6 August 2029, with the potential extension to 6 August 2031.

This tender presents significant opportunities for business growth, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) capable of offering diverse staff benefits schemes. Businesses specialising in services related to presents and rewards, computer equipment, mobile telephones, passenger cars, bicycles, financial leasing, benefit services, and childcare could find lucrative engagements within this framework. By participating in the market engagement process, businesses can provide and gain insights that could shape the framework, aligning it with market trends and technological advancements, thereby enhancing the framework's appeal and efficacy in meeting public sector needs.

## Notice

ESPO is a public sector-owned professional buying organisation offering a comprehensive range of procurement services, including access to over 100 free-to-access framework solutions for the wider public sector. We are conducting preliminary market engagement with the intention of establishing a framework for the provision of a range of staff benefits schemes, which offer goods and services to customers' employees via salary sacrifice, voluntary benefits, or net payroll deduction. This is not a call for competition. Tender documentation is not yet available.

### Planning Information

ESPO are conducting market engagement to gain feedback and insight from potential suppliers to inform the development of a proposed framework for the provision of a range Staff Benefits schemes.
The intended outcomes of the preliminary market engagement process are:
* To alert the market to and encourage participation in the framework procurement.
* To identify and explore opportunities to improve the framework offering in specific areas:
- Market trends;
- Regulatory or legislative updates;
- Opportunities for improvement through technology;
- Framework scope;
- Framework pricing;
- Rebate structure;
- Data controls;
- Ease of use;
- Framework appeal.
* To communicate the outcomes of the engagement process to the market, ensuring fairness.
Engagement is initially being undertaken via a Request for Information (RFI) questionnaire, details of which are captured on the EastMidsTenders eProcurement Portal (www.eastmidstenders.org). The deadline for responding to the RFI is 17:00 (5pm) on 10 July 2026.
Suppliers wishing to participate in the engagement process MUST must first express an interest as follows:
(a) Go to https://www.eastmidstenders.org/; (b) Register (if not already registered on ProContract); (c) Search for tender opportunity 319_27 (via "View Opportunities" from the EastMidsTenders Portal); d) Express an interest.
Suppliers can access the RFI in the ‘Messages’ section found on the ‘Activity’ dashboard, once an expression of interest has been registered. Any questions or clarifications on this should be ONLY be submitted to ESPO as a message on the eProcurement Portal.
ESPO also intends to conduct 1-2-1 meetings with a limited number of potential suppliers to further explore points raised within questionnaire responses, including where further detail or clarification is required.
To ensure equal treatment of potential suppliers, and that participants in the preliminary market engagement process are not put at an unfair advantage, ESPO will publish market engagement outcomes within any subsequent ITT documentation.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059713-2026 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Jun 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 5 Feb 2027 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 6 Aug 2027 - 6 Aug 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £183,333,333 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, TRADING AS ESPO |
| Additional buyers | YORKSHIRE PURCHASING ORGANISATION |
| Locality | LEICESTER |
| Post town | Leicester |
| Postcode | LE19 1ES |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber |
| ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire |
| ITL 3 | TLE45 Wakefield |
| Local authority | Wakefield |
| Electoral ward | Wrenthorpe and Outwood West |
| Westminster constituency | Wakefield and Rothwell |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 18 - Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories
- 30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
- 32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
- 34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
- 66 - Financial and insurance services
- 75 - Administration, defence and social security services
- 85 - Health and social work services
- 98 - Other community, social and personal services

### Codes

- 18530000 - Presents and rewards
- 30200000 - Computer equipment and supplies
- 32250000 - Mobile telephones
- 34110000 - Passenger cars
- 34430000 - Bicycles
- 66114000 - Financial leasing services
- 75310000 - Benefit services
- 75340000 - Child allowances
- 85312110 - Child daycare services
- 98300000 - Miscellaneous services

## Release History

- 25 Jun 2026 at 09:27 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059713-2026
- 12 May 2026 at 11:29 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043398-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059713-2026
  25th June 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043398-2026
  12th May 2026 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.eastmidstenders.org/
- https://www.espo.org/
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.ypo.co.uk/

## Provenance

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