Awarded contract

pEPR Scheme - Financial Services Supplier (FSS)

Details

Value
£19,488,125.29
Duration
7 years
Topic
Administration services
Published
4 February 2025

Tender description

The awarded contract is for a Financial Services Supplier (FSS) as an outsourced managed service to perform functions that include: • Invoicing of not less than 8,000 Obligated Producers annually • Collection of disposal fees from 8,000 Obligated Producers including chasers/reminders to customers. • Contact Management for producer and LA queries related to disposal fee Notice of Liability and payments, LA grants, and scheme compliance. • Reconciliation and escalation of overdue producer disposal fees. • Reconciliation of debt, escalation of uncollected debt after all standard debt collection activities have finished. • Grant Administration to pay all UK LAs via formula grant. • Grant Monitoring using data from producers and LAs via Defra. • Payment of LA Data charges payment to LAs for the costs of providing information to the SA. • Balancing of Revenue and Payment for the Scheme Administrator.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date29 January 2025
  2. Completed: Award published4 February 2025
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date28 January 2032in 5 years

About the buyer

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is a ministerial department that also buys through agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Rural Payments Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. Suppliers register on the DEFRA eCommercial website, Atamis, to compete for contract opportunities across the department. Larger opportunities are advertised through the Find a Tender service under the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025. DEFRA also procures goods and services through the Crown Commercial Service. Existing contracts and frameworks set up under the previous procurement regulations remain valid until they expire.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of DEFRA's contract awards have been in research and development, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 75100000 · Administration services

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