Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Defra · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Accenture UK Limited
- Value
- £19,488,125.29
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Public administration & defence services · Administration services (CPV 75100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Jan 2025
- Published4 Feb 2025Published 6 days after the contract date
Description
The awarded contract is for a Financial Services Supplier (FSS) as an outsourced managed service to perform functions that include: • Invoicing of not less than 8,000 Obligated Producers annually • Collection of disposal fees from 8,000 Obligated Producers including chasers/reminders to customers. • Contact Management for producer and LA queries related to disposal fee Notice of Liability and payments, LA grants, and scheme compliance. • Reconciliation and escalation of overdue producer disposal fees. • Reconciliation of debt, escalation of uncollected debt after all standard debt collection activities have finished. • Grant Administration to pay all UK LAs via formula grant. • Grant Monitoring using data from producers and LAs via Defra. • Payment of LA Data charges payment to LAs for the costs of providing information to the SA. • Balancing of Revenue and Payment for the Scheme Administrator.
About the supplier
Accenture UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04757301).