Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement Exercise for Appointeeship Banking Services
Authority: Sunderland City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Financial Safeguarding Team (FST) is part of Adult Services within Sunderland City Council (The Council).
The FST has a responsibility to effectively manage the finances of clients where the council act as deputy or appointee. These roles include opening a bank account for the client, setting up regular payments for their utilities and care fees, making one off payments, ensuring the client has access to weekly money via a pre-paid card or card account and receiving benefits into the client's bank account on their behalf.
Scope of the System
The FST require a robust, bespoke, intelligent, value for money, web-based solution to positively support the FST to manage all aspects of a client's property and financial affairs in accordance with the Council and OPG standards.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
The Council are seeking feedback from the market regarding the proposed solution a detailed within associated documentation.
CPV: Banking services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- 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
- 29 Apr 2025, 11:51 BST
- Last source update
- 9 May 2025, 11:37 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-019999- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050904Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Apr 2025 → 1 May 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published29 Apr 2025, 11:51 BST
- Latest notice published9 May 2025, 11:37 BST
- Market engagement21 May 2025, 23:59 BST
All documentation including a copy of an initial draft Specification and market engagement questions is available via the following link
- Contract starts180 days ago1 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Apr 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Apr 2025, 11:51 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 May 2025, 11:37 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender