Financial Services Compensation Scheme: GB-London: Secure Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services

Competitive Contract Award Notice

1. Title: GB-London: Secure Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services
2. Awarding Authority:
    Financial Services Compensation Scheme
    Beaufort House, 15 St. Botolph Street, London, EC3A 7QU, United Kingdom
    Tel. 0207 375 8175, Email: procurement@fscs.org.uk, URL: www.fscs.org.uk
    Contact: Procurement, Attn: Procurement
3. Contract Type: Services
      Sub Type: Financial services: Insurance services and Banking and investment services.

4. Description: Financial and insurance services. FSCS is seeking to award Service Contracts to two (2) individual Service Providers for the provision of secure Cheque
Printing and Pay-out Services comprising the following:
1. Implementation Services:
-Put in place standby and payment services capable of anytime short notice invocation.
-Supplier project management of design, including End to End testing, through to implementation of standby service.
2. Standby Services:
-Cheque base-stock and envelope stock production and storage capability, or outsource/sub-contract facilities
for same
-Security around plant, stock and process consistent with sensitive materials and mail handling, and accredited
cheque production
3. Payment Services:
-Printing, enclosing and dispatching cheques to the required standards within the required timeframes
-Receiving data for up to two (2) million records on Day 1, and ensuring all records are dispatched by last post
before the end of Day 4 (exceptions apply to non-Business days).
-Receipt/transmission of data in FSCS prescribed pipe delimited .txt via a Secure File Transfer (SFTP), a secure method over the Internet (e.g. SFTP, Portal or Website secured by TLS 1.2 or higher) , Error handling and Management Information Reporting over invocation period via same protocol.
-Returned mail handling and reporting facility
Each Contract for Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services will be the same and it is intention that FSCS will award the
Primary Service Provider contract to the Tenderer having submitted the most economically advantageous tender then Secondary Service Provider contract to Tenderer of the second most economically advantageous tender.
All Service Providers shall be required to provide Implementation services to set up services, and Standby Services following 'set up' for the term of the contract. Pay-out services will be on a tiered approach as described below.
The work to be allocated to the Service-Providers is on a tiered basis so that Primary Provider is preferred followed by Secondary Provider where Primary Provider is unable to meet all or part of the requirement.
5. CPV Codes:
   66000000 - Financial and insurance services.

6. NUTS Codes :
   UKI4 - Inner London – East

7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: Inner London – East,
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority: FSCS326
9. Awarded to:

    Integrity Print Ltd
    First Avenue,, Westfield Trading Estate, Midsomer Norton, Bath, BA3 4BS, United Kingdom
    Tel. +44 01761409200 , Email: enquiries@integrity-print.com
    Contact: Andrew Law , Attn: Andrew Law
Value Cost: 188,500
Is Awardee likely to subcontract?: No Awarded to SME?: No
    Adare SEC Ltd
    1 Meridian South, , Meridian Business Park, Leicester, LE19 1WY, United Kingdom
    Tel. +44 01484867302, Email: jason.shaw@adaresec.com, URL: www.adare.com
    Contact: Jason Shaw, Attn: Jason Shaw
Value Cost: 89,181
Is Awardee likely to subcontract?: No Awarded to SME?: No
10. Date of Contract Award: 16/04/2019
11. Number of Tenders Received: 2
12. Other Information:
Other Information: To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=450146178
TKR-20191126-PRO-15612419
Suitable for VCO: Yes
Period of Work Start date: 23/04/2019
Period of Work End date: 09/09/2022