Provision of Payroll Processing Services

Tender description

HSE is currently deploying a National Integrated Payroll System (NiSRP), and while the deployment of this system continues, the requirement for outsourced payroll processing services remains, To this end, HSE propose entering into a contract for the continued provision of Payroll Processing Services, to ensure payroll services for 45,000 circa HSE staff. The delivery of services through the Resource Link platform to the former Health Boards of South, North East and West for a period up to 3 years. Lot 1: Zellis (formerly Norhtgate Arinso, formerly Cara) have been supplying Payroll solutions for the HSE since the early 1990’s, and in 2017 the HSE entered into a 5 year renewal contract with Zellis to continue to supply payroll services for 4 operational sites across the HSE. Currently the HSE are in the process of rolling out a National Integrated Staff Records and Pay Programme (NiSRP) across the HSE. This rollout involves the transfer of all Pay and HR related solutions from their current legacy systems to the HSE SAP platform by 2025. At the time it was envisaged by those negotiating the 2017-2022 contract that rollout of NiSRP would be complete during the duration of the contract. This has not been the case due to reasons beyond the scope of this document, but the current plan as outlined by NiSRP is to rollout the South in 2023 and the West and North East prior to the end of Dec 2025. As the current contract with Zellis expires on 31 Dec 2022, due to technical and operational reasons the proposal is to extend this contract for a further 3 years. The delivery of services through the Resource Link platform to the former Health Boards of South, North East and West for a period up to 3 years, and award the contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union. The HSE proposes to do this under Article 72 EU Directives.