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The Mercian Trust

The Mercian Trust Outsourced Payroll Service and HR and Payroll System

Business ServicesCPV 79631000
Value£400k
Deadline26 Aug 2026
Published10 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 10 Jul 202633 days leftCloses 26 Aug 2026
Who to contact
info@themerciantrust.org
01922 211388

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
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Contract value in context
£400ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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.

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The brief

The Trust is procuring a fully integrated solution comprising both a cloud-based HR and Payroll software system (HRIS) and a fully outsourced payroll service, delivered by a single supplier.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Trust is procuring a fully integrated

The Trust is procuring a fully integrated solution comprising both a cloud-based HR and Payroll software system (HRIS) and a fully outsourced payroll service, delivered by a single supplier.

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

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c830
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
065008-2026
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