Financial systems software package

Tender description

LGSS is the shared services venture set up by founding partners Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) and Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), with Milton Keynes Council (MKC) becoming a third partner in April 2016. LGSS offers a fully integrated support service. CCC operates an accredited Bacs Bureau via which LGSS is providing BACS Bureau services to multiple public sector organisations with annual volumes of transactions in excess of 3 m and more than 40 SUNs. LGSS are seeking for a solution focused on both quality and reliability, allowing us to offer BACS Bureau services to our public sector customers in a transparent and straightforward way. We are running soft market test to help us gain an understanding of the market and current technological capabilities to help us inform the strategy of LGSS Bacs Bureau. CCC operates an accredited Bacs Bureau via which LGSS is providing BACS Bureau services to multiple public sector organisations with annual volumes of transactions in excess of 3 m and more than 40 SUNs. Our current software provision contract is reaching the end of its term. Therefore we are looking to appraise the market for a technologically relevant, practical and cost effective solution suitable for our growing business. We are looking to build a strong, long term stable relationship with the right solution provider to work with us to develop and build our offering to our partners/customers LGSS are seeking for a solution focused on both quality and reliability, allowing us to offer BACS Bureau services to our public sector customers in a transparent and straightforward way. We are running soft market test to help us gain an understanding of the market and current technological capabilities to help us inform the strategy of LGSS Bacs Bureau. This market testing exercise is not an Invitation to Tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. This document does not form any part of an invitation to tender. LGSS is issuing this request for information only. Any supplier invited to present to LGSS is doing so to support market research only and to help make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient. No supplier selection or supplier preference is implied.