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OpenStage · planning

Department for Work & Pensions

Sponsor Bank Service

Financial ServicesCPV 66000000
Value£1.4m
Deadline
Published7 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£1.4mtotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£4.7m

This is a large award for Financial & Insurance Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 8,013 valued Financial & Insurance Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wish to give notice of planned procurement opportunity in relation to two linked but separate future procurements for DWP payment contingency services (together referred to in this notice as the “Payment Contingency Services (“PCS”)).

The intention of the PCS is to ensure DWP has robust contingencies in place to make benefit and pension entitlement payments to its customers on the dates they are due.

The PCS are invoked only in exceptional circumstances where there is a delay in DWP releasing Bacs payment file(s).

The DWP intends for the relevant services to be provided under two separate, interdependent contracts (both of which are required to allow for invocation of PCS) as follows: Short Term Payment Contingency (“STPC”) - Lot 1: This service reformats Bacs payments files into Faster Payment files for onward submission into the Faster…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The intention of the PCS is

The intention of the PCS is to ensure DWP has robust contingencies in place to make benefit and pension entitlement payments to its customers on the dates they are due.

02

The DWP intends for the relevant services

The DWP intends for the relevant services to be provided under two separate, interdependent contracts (both of which are required to allow for invocation of PCS) as follows:.

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

Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0615d4
Stage
planning · planned
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
063771-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

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