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COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

National Framework Agreement for a Managed Service for the Provision of a Payroll and Pension Services

Business ServicesCPV 79211110
Value£50.0m
Awarded16 Jan 2019
Published3 Apr 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£50.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£54.0m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Commercial Procurement Service has established a framework which will allow clients to seek providers of payroll and pension services, who are able to provide accurate and timely payments to their employees.

This will typically include issuing monthly payments to each staff member and may include making and recovering advance payments, upon bespoke request.

The service provider will be required to be responsible for output of the client authorities Standard Electronic Staff Record (ESR) to their nominated financial services team/supplier.

Service providers will be expected to offer first line customer service directly to client authorities' employees to resolve any pay discrepancies, including expenses payments and any variation payments which may occur.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Commercial Procurement Service has established a framework which will allow clients to seek providers of payroll and pension services, who are able to provide accurate and timely payments to their employees.

02

The service provider will be required

The service provider will be required to be responsible for output of the client authorities Standard Electronic Staff Record (ESR) to their nominated financial services team/supplier.

03

Service providers will be expected to offer

Service providers will be expected to offer first line customer service directly to client authorities' employees to resolve any pay discrepancies, including expenses payments and any variation payments which may occur.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
b81dd9f0-570b-476b-af1b-9afd6b35ffc3
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
F/022/PAY/19/JF
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