Awarded contract

BACS Transmission Service

Details

Value
£105,600
Duration
3 years
Topic
Software package and information systems
Published
2 December 2025

Tender description

Rotherham MBC (RMBC) seeks to engage the services of an accredited partner (that shall remain accredited throughout the period of any agreement) to the BACS Approved Bureau Scheme (BABS), to securely transmit files (including Automated Direct Debit Instruction Service (AUDDIS)) to BACS on behalf of RMBC and its customers and partners. Rotherham MBC currently creates approximately 3,600 files per year generated by internal systems for onward transfer to BACS. Payment files are both direct credit and direct debit in respect of 20 current Service User Numbers (SUNs). The number of SUNs and files generated are subject to increase and / or decrease and are not guaranteed. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published2 December 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date2 December 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date17 November 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is a local authority in South Yorkshire, and advertises most of its contract opportunities through YORtender, its e-tendering platform. YORtender also carries live tender opportunities from councils across the Yorkshire region, run as a shared regional procurement platform. A public contract register lists every current agreement the council holds, the service area it covers and a named contact for suppliers. Larger contracts carry social value requirements set out in the council's published social value policy. Procurement follows the reformed rules introduced under the Procurement Act, with dedicated guidance published for prospective suppliers.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council's contract awards have been in construction work, software and information systems and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48000000 · Software package and information systems
  • 66000000 · Financial and insurance services

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