Published date: 14 May 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 13 June 2025, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Presents and rewards - 18530000

  • Administration software package - 48219300

  • Child allowances - 75340000

    • Customer-loyalty programme - 79342321

    • Personnel and payroll services - 79631000

    • Wellness services - 98334000

Location of contract

M15JW

Value of contract

£75,000 to £150,000

Procurement reference

GC26 - 002-132

Published date

14 May 2025

Closing date

13 June 2025

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

1 October 2025

Contract end date

30 September 2030

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Growth Company (GC) is looking for a provider of an Employee Benefits Platform, which will continue to provide colleagues with a range of discounts and benefits. GC would like a reward platform that offers flexibility and an attractive range of benefits to users, as well as good value for money for GC.

The benefits GC currently have with our existing platform are outlined in the tender documents and must be included within your offer, however we would like to maximise what we can provide our colleagues and therefore would like to achieve as many additional benefits to colleagues as we can.

Critical Requirements of this contract are:
• Provision of advice on best practice for additional Salary sacrifice or benefits to offer colleagues
• Dedicated account manager (single point of contact)
• Phone App availability for discount schemes
• Single Sign on available (GC uses Microsoft Azure)
• Ease of use for administration purposes (awards vouchers seeing the moneys available and making the awards; payroll reporting for cycle to work and other benefits)
• Separate invoicing to each GC subsidiary company where required
• Ability to deal with our 16 separate payrolls being run
• Getting the best retail discounts for staff and therefore understanding how these are awarded
• Good employee engagement and communication
• Regular webinars run for colleagues to promote the scheme
• Keep the content engaging regular review and comms/engagement on offers

Please review Document A and Document B to see the full details of this tender opportunity.

To apply for this tender opportunity, please register as a supplier on the Panacea Supplier Platform at the following web address: https://app.panacea-software.com/growth

Once you have accessed the site, to view the opportunity you need to navigate to 'Register Interest', click the 'Participate' Button, then navigate to 'My Questionnaires' where you will be able to download the documents. Your tender submission must be made on the Panacea Portal. Please ensure ALL the relevant tender documents are included within the 'Response' section of the Questionnaire. You can add these individually or utilise a Zip folder to submit your response. Once uploaded, this will allow you to 'Submit' your bid.

The documents contain instructions and information for your tender, including specification of requirements, and the key assessment and evaluation criteria that will be used to assess offers.

The deadline for submission of the required documents is at 16:00pm on Friday 13th June 2025.

More information

Links

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Marc Ripley

Address

Lee House
Manchester
M15JW
England

Email

marc.ripley@growthco.uk