Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 26 Apr 2025, 22:03 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Overseas Payment Provider · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Student Loans Company (Central government)

ServicesBelow thresholdConcession
Sectors: Financial and insurance services (66) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Concession value (operator's revenue)£0operator revenue, not the authority's budget
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 1 Jul 2031 · up to 1 Jul 2033 with extensions · starts 30 Jun 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Student Loans Company (SLC)is a non-profit making government owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK. We have 9.7 million customers, manage a loan book worth £260.8bn and manage the full end to end “apply, asses, pay and repay “process.

SLC is seeking a supplier to provide a repayment service for SLC customers, who live abroad ,that allows them to make low-cost repayments in the foreign currency of their choosing and for this to be quickly repaid to SLC in sterling. The service must capture all customer contact information and SLC customer reference number, these details to be captured for every transaction made and sent onto SLC to allow SLC to quickly identify the customer account to be credited. Integration to a SLC system will be necessary to allow for an efficient reconciliation process.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-title/3A2… ↗

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/3A2M7NPBDC ↗

CPV: International payment transfer services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Lot 2025-TR-0033PlannedRenewal 5 yrs
Contract period: 30 Jun 2026 – 1 Jul 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 1 Jul 2033 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

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
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Concession
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
26 Apr 2025, 22:03 BST
Last source update
26 Apr 2025, 22:03 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-017168
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
International payment transfer services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0507fe Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

26 Apr 2025 → 30 Jun 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    26 Apr 2025, 22:03 BST
  2. Market engagement
    20 May 2025, 00:59 BST

    Prior to initiating the procurement, SLC wishes to establish the level of market interest to participating in the forth coming procurement process.

    Suitably qualified and experienced suppliers who may have an interest in this project are invited to complete the questionnaire that is available to registered suppliers via the Delta e-tendering system, for this Preliminary Market Engagement. The high level requirements are detailed within the online questionnaire.

    The purpose of the market engagement is to help assess the reaction of the market, to understand risks and future possibilities to ensure a future proofed procurement strategy and resulting contract. Please note that lengthy questionnaire responses are not necessary at this stage. However, SLC would welcome any pertinent information on your company's views on an approach to the provision of the required services.

    Any submission received in response to this exercise will not constitute any contractual agreement between the respondent and SLC. Nor does the receipt of a response automatically include the respondent in the procurement process.

    A Tender Notice will be issued to the market which will provide details of how the relating procurement documentation can be accessed and timescales for submission of the said tender response.

    Interested parties shall bear their own costs of participation in this Market Engagement of whatever nature. SLC shall not be liable for the costs, expenses or losses howsoever arising (including, without limitation, any loss of profit or other economic loss incurred), regardless of the outcome of the Market Engagement.

    The next stage in the process will be considered once this exercise has been completed. **PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED, BEFORE 12:00 on the date specified within the Preliminary Market Engagement tenderbox, namely Monday 19th May 2025.

  3. Contract starts119 days ago
    30 Jun 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    26 Apr 2025, 22:03 BST
    UK2

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

Student Loans Company Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMXL-3278-BCWT The Memphis Building, Lingfield Point, McMullen Road, Darlington, North East, DL1 1RWContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure