Published date: 17 October 2018
Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.
Contract summary
Industry
Financial and insurance services - 66000000
Location of contract
EC3A 7QU
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
tender_191133/717792
Published date
17 October 2018
Closing date
16 November 2018
Contract start date
24 April 2019
Contract end date
23 April 2022
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
FSCS is seeking to award Service Contracts to two (2) individual Service Providers for the provision of secure Cheque
Printing and Pay-out Services comprising the following:
1. Implementation Services:
-Put in place standby and payment services capable of anytime short notice invocation.
-Supplier project management of design, including End to End testing, through to implementation of standby service.
2. Standby Services:
-Cheque base-stock and envelope stock production and storage capability, or outsource/sub-contract facilities
for same
-Security around plant, stock and process consistent with sensitive materials and mail handling, and accredited
cheque production
3. Payment Services:
-Printing, enclosing and dispatching cheques to the required standards within the required timeframes
-Receiving data for up to two (2) million records on Day 1, and ensuring all records are dispatched by last post
before the end of Day 4 (exceptions apply to non-Business days).
-Receipt/transmission of data in FSCS prescribed pipe delimited .txt via a Secure File Transfer (SFTP), a secure method over the Internet (e.g. SFTP, Portal or Website secured by TLS 1.2 or higher) , Error handling and Management Information Reporting over invocation period via same protocol.
-Returned mail handling and reporting facility
Each Contract for Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services will be the same and it is intention that FSCS will award the
Primary Service Provider contract to the Tenderer having submitted the most economically advantageous tender then Secondary Service Provider contract to Tenderer of the second most economically advantageous tender.
All Service Providers shall be required to provide Implementation services to set up services, and Standby Services following 'set up' for the term of the contract. Pay-out services will be on a tiered approach as described below.
The work to be allocated to the Service-Providers is on a tiered basis so that Primary Provider is preferred followed by Secondary Provider where Primary Provider is unable to meet all or part of the requirement.
More information
Links
-
- https://ted.europa.eu/TED/browse/browseByBO.do
- Tender notice
- FSCS have published an OJEU notice on TED and the link to the OJEU notice will be provided here when available. Prospective Tenders can also access the ITT documents by following instructions below. The OJEU notice takes precedence over all other notices
-
- https://fscs.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
- Tender notice
- Access to ITT documents can also be through FSCS tendering portal (see link below). Prospective Tenderers are required to register on Bravosolution and Express Interest in order to access ITT Documents)
About the buyer
Contact name
Jean Mutudza
Address
10th Floor Beaufort House, 15 St Botolph Street
London
EC3A 7QU
England
Telephone
+44 02077414100
Website
Share this notice
Closing: 16 November 2018
All content is available under the
