Published date: 23 August 2021

Last edited date: 23 August 2021

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.


Closing: 20 September 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • Financial information systems - 48812000

  • Financial and insurance services - 66000000

    • Pension services - 66520000

    • Pension fund administration services - 66523100

    • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

    • Financial analysis and accounting software development services - 72212440

    • Administration services - 75100000

    • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

    • Accounting, auditing and fiscal services - 79200000

    • Office-support services - 79500000

    • Call centre - 79512000

    • Mailing services - 79571000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £185,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_240658/990192

Published date

23 August 2021

Closing date

20 September 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

30 June 2023

Contract end date

28 September 2035

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive dialogue (above threshold)

Tenders are invited from pre-qualified suppliers after discussion of requirements and potential solutions.

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

The key requirement is to administer the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) in accordance with the statutory regulations that govern the scheme. Those regulations are currently the Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010 and the Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014 'the Regulations' as amended.

The administrator will be required to work with the Department to ensure the regulations remain up to date and appropriate and will need to adapt the administration to ensure it remains compliant with and supportive of any changes introduced via regulatory change or case law; such as the McCloud/Sargeant judgment in respect of 2015 transitional arrangements.

Administration of the Scheme must also comply with all other legislative requirements that have applied, apply, or will apply to the TPS. It is essential therefore that the contractor is proactive in monitoring, analysing, and adapting to new legislative requirements, ensuring the Scheme continues to adapt appropriately.

The vision for the TPS is 'to ensure that the TPS offers an attractive, clear and cost-effective contribution to the total reward package for teachers, and thus, that it plays a full part in recruiting and retaining an excellent teaching workforce.'

To support the DfE the TPS administration will be accepted as the best administered UK public service pension scheme. Providing an effective, fully digital, personalised service to our members with our partners at the centre of the administration design

The TPS is a statutory, unfunded, defined benefit occupational pension scheme split into three distinct sections:
- the Normal Pension Age (NPA) 60 section
- the NPA 65 section (note: both these sections provide benefits based on final salary and length of service)
- the 2015 section provides benefits based on career average earnings (CARE) and has a normal pension age equal to state pension age.

The department believe it is vitally important to make the procurement process as attractive and easy for Teacher Pensions Administrators and indeed for other, non-pension Providers, to engage with. Our view is that the procurement should be flexible enough to allow the 'market' to organise itself and bid for those aspects of the service it feels it can deliver optimally via either a Consortia, Prime, etc.

More information

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Additional text

The Department reserves the right not to enter into a formal procurement process and not award contract(s).
The Authority will not be liable for any tender cost, expenditure, work or effort incurred by a candidate/tenderer in acting on the basis of this Notice.

The procurement will be ran through the department's E-tendering portal. For Registration and access to the tender documents please follow the link below
All information included in this notice is indicative and subject to change,

About the buyer

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

TPS.Commercial@education.gov.uk