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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

OPEN UNIVERSITY(THE)

OUPA11602

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79900000
Value£166k
Awarded27 Mar 2026
Published3 Jun 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£166ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Provision of a debt collection/legal agent to recover unpaid debt from Students and Corporate/Commercial firms when the OU has exhausted all internal process and procedures.

The activity will include communicating with students and firms, liaising with staff at the OU, legal advice and taking legal action on behalf of the OU.

All activity must be undertaken within FCA regulations.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

All activity must be undertaken within FCA

All activity must be undertaken within FCA regulations.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

FCA authorisationsays mustRegulator registrations
All activity must be undertaken within FCA regulations.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
3a599369-4ffe-408d-90da-9e249f17bbfa
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
Debt Collection
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