The top prior information notices

This week’s featured PIN

Buyer: Crown Commercial Service on behalf of Cabinet Office
Title: Framework: Debt resolution services
Value: £550m
The lowdown: The Crown Commercial Service has unveiled plans to launch a massive £550m framework covering debt resolution services. The framework is set to include a range of products and solutions covering a numbers of tasks linked to debt resolution, such as fraud and error prevention and spend recovery analysis software. It comes just weeks after a government report warned that a shortage of digital procurement tools was hampering efforts to stem a tide of fraud and corruption that costs taxpayers up to £2.75bn a year, as NS Tech reported at the time. Prospective suppliers have until 13 July 2020 to register their interest in the framework.

The best of the rest

Buyer: HealthTrust Europe on behalf of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Title: Framework: Supply and delivery of ESR
Register interest deadline: 20 July 2020
Value: £30m

Buyer: Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Title: Grounds maintenance IT solution
Register interest deadline: 10 July 2020
Value: £N/A

Buyer: Department for Transport
Title: Provision of an Electronic Point of Sale (ePOS)
Estimated publication date: 5 August 2020
Value: N/A

The top tenders

This week’s featured tender

Buyer: Education and Skills Funding Agency
Title: DevOps and Architecture services
The lowdown: One of the largest tenders of the week comes from the Education and Skills Funding Agency, which is looking to spend up to £4.2m on DevOps and architecture services to support a programme of work to reform the further education sector. The deadline for applications is 6 July.

The best of the rest

Buyer: Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO)
Title: Framework: Network connectivity and telecommunication solutions
Deadline: 5 August 2020
Value: £750m

Buyer: Navy Command
Title: Framework: Dreadnought Crew Training Prime
Deadline: 30 July 2020
Value: £100m-250m

Buyer: Joint Forces Command
Title: Fully integrated soldier system
Deadline: 17 July 2020
Value: £10m

Buyer: Homes England
Title: Multiple multi-disciplinary teams
Deadline: 10 July 2020
Value: £8m

The top awards

This week’s featured award

Buyer: Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Supplier: Capgemini
Title: IT services
The lowdown: Capgemini has secured one of the largest awards of the week: a £40m deal to provide IT services to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. The contract came into effect on 30 June and will run for up to seven years.
Award date: 30 June 2020
Value: £40m

The best of the rest

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier: Banner Group
Title: Framework: Supply of IT consumables
Award date: 3 June 2020
Value: £40.7m

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Supplier: Keep IT Simple
Title: CAPD platform hosting and support services
Award date: 30 June 2020
Value: £7m-15m

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