Payroll management services

Tender description

NHS Digital is seeking to procure a new contract for the provision of a payroll and pensions service. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) informs the market of the potential opportunity should a contract notice be published at a later date. The scope of the potential contract may include the following: the provision of payroll, expenses, fees and pension-related services. We envisage the potential contract will be for a fully managed payroll provision with an initial term of two years with an optional extension of a further twelve months. NHS Digital is seeking to procure a new contract for the provision of a payroll and pensions service. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) informs the market of the potential opportunity should a contract notice be published at a later date. NHS Digital is looking to Go to market to procure a new contract to manage our payroll and pensions processing. We envisage this to include end to end payroll processing including a service to manage overpayments recovery and expenses processing as well as a fully managed NHS pension provision. Before any formal procurement commences, NHS Digital wants to actively engage with potential and suitably experienced suppliers in the market to help understand what solutions they can deliver and how and what could be delivered. To that end we are running a running a ‘request for information’ (RFI) exercise which sets out in summary the background to the requirement and our current vision and requests suppliers to provide some structured feedback via a series of questions. Participation in the RfI is entirely optional and neither advantages nor disadvantages any potential tenderers participation later should NHS Digital publish a formal contract notice and invitation to tender. Please refer to section VI.3) for details of how to access the RfI documents. We envisage the potential contract will be for a fully managed payroll provision with an initial term of two years with an optional extension of a further 12 months.