Financial consultancy services

Tender description

Crown Commercial Service, as the Contracting Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of Spend Analysis and Recovery services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies. This Framework Agreement will replace the previous ‘Spend Analysis and Recovery’ (SARS) Framework Agreement RM 1037 The aim is to appoint multiple suppliers to work in effective partnership with participating Contracting Authorities by providing access to a range of high quality analytical and recovery services and solutions designed to meet the needs of the Civil Service and UK public sector bodies, on a contingent fee basis. The offer will provide a detailed and forensic analysis of a Contracting Authorities supplier charges and payments to identify and recover overpayments or errors resulting in overpayments to suppliers. The solution will take into account the range of requirements, offering 3 structures of service from transaction and supplier balance analysis to a bespoke review of multiple or individual contracts or areas of supply. The proposed structure of the Framework is to have 3 Lots: 1. Transaction Review (Supplier Balances and Payment errors). 2. End-to-end (Full review inc. Supplier Balances, Payment Errors and Contract Compliance). 3. Contract Compliance (Category Specialists ie. Utilities, Logistics, VAT etc.).