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Published 31 Aug 2021, 16:38 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Cash Management Services · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: United Utilities Water Limited (Public body)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Sept 2021from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Scope of this proposed service contract is to provide a cash and payment processing management service. Facilitating the processing of all electronic bill payments via a cash management system which receives the payment/reconciles information from each payment stream (i.e. BACS, DD call off, Over the counter payments and other payment streams) before transmitting the compiled information back to our corporate billing system via end of day settlement files and production of end of day financial reporting.

CPV: Call centre · Data collection and collation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The cash management solution would need to provide us with a full audit trail for…Planned

The cash management solution would need to provide us with a full audit trail for total traceability of transactions made via each payment stream and provides the facility for our teams to raise queries when addressing customer payment enquires.

The scope of the procurement would be to undertake all activities relating to the management of payments made by UUW Customers for their Water and Waste Water charges and payments relating to this service will be used by Domestic customers.

The scope of the cash management services would include:

  • Direct Debit transmission and collection of Direct Debit payments
  • Receive, bank and allocate all customer payments from any source to the correct customer accounts inc bank over the counter, Post office, Pay zone, BACS and SO, card payments made by debit and credit cards, payments from Debt agencies and Department of Working Pensions
  • Monitor and reconcile payments
  • Resolve misallocation / unallocated manual payments which fall out of automated process
  • Complete cash to bank reconciliation each financial month end
  • Process refunds - There is a requirement to produce month end financial reports and suspense reports for the payments which can’t be allocated automatically and to produce write off reports
  • Management of bank accounts relating to customers BACS payments, DD payments and manual adjustments inc unpaid cheques, faster payment reversals, chargebacks.
  • General ledger postings in SAP
  • Complete reconciliation of cash in transit each half year and year end
  • Reconcile and control of the Cash Management System
  • Process and resolve payment enquiries
  • Remittance processing
  • Processing cash receipts and Post office water stamps
  • Taking receipt of cheques, processing via cash mgt system and send for clearing Additional information: **Deadline for Reponses will be 24/09/2021**

**Please see attached Appendix K**

Delivery: North West

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
31 Aug 2021, 16:38 BST
Last source update
31 Aug 2021, 16:38 BST
Authority reference
PRO004429
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-021495
Classification (CPV)
Call centreData collection and collation services
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02db66 Find a Tender

Publisher note: If you have experience in this area please could you provide at a minimum the following information and submit to the United Utilities Regulatory Procurement Team mailbox: RegulatoryProcurementTeam@uuplc.co.uk • Company Name • Contact details, including location telephone and e-mail address, main point of contact and position in Company • Brief description of the Company • Confirm whether the Company would be interested in providing this service. • Current Cash management system used (if pricing for the full end to end service) • Number of payments/cheques processed per month • Detail of customer reference points • Detail of pricing for the management of the end to end service this should be detailed as an annual amount and based on your standard pricing model. Volumes of transactions have been provided below • Detail of pricing for the cash management system this should be detailed as an annual amount and based on your standard pricing mechanism. Volumes of transactions have been provided below **Please see attached Appendix K**

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

31 Aug 2021 → 1 Sept 2021 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    31 Aug 2021, 16:38 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    1 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

United Utilities Water Limited

Contracting authorityPublic bodyWater 02366678 Lingley Mere Business Park, Warrington, North West, WA5 3LPContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.