Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-07-02
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72212450 | 79211110 | 79414000 | 79631000
Estimated value: 30000000 GBP

Technical requirements: HealthTrust Europe is seeking to establish a framework agreement for the supply and delivery of ESR (Electronic Staff Record) compatible payroll management services.
This framework agreement will cover the supply of ESR compatible fully managed, blended and bureau payroll services. The scope includes software development, software, consultation and advice, BACS service, hosted payroll, helpdesk solutions, HMRC reporting, temporary and permanent employees, security, fully managed services and any other product/service associated with payroll.
HealthTrust Europe are looking for an operational payroll provider to supply fully managed, blended and bureau payroll. The payroll services should include a variable blend of functions such as joiners, permanent variations, temporary variations, expenses, overpayments, underpayments, leavers, redundancy, sickness or injury, maternity, paternity or adoption, payroll timetable, unpaid leave, absence, jury service, financial references, pensions, injury benefit or death in service, third party deductions, salary sacrifice schemes, weekly or monthly (including payments to bank staff) payroll runs, payroll reconciliation, Attachment of Earnings deductions (AOE) and service optimisation. HealthTrust Europe will include HR services as a supplementary service to this framework.The supplier shall provide a robust reporting mechanism back to the customer and to HealthTrust Europe.
This notice is for prior information only, publication for a further call for competition will be made as required. To assist in the strategic direction of the procurement and overall solution, HealthTrust Europe (HTE) is seeking supplier engagement. Please send your expression of interest to babita.mal@htepg.com. The deadline for expressions of interest for the supplier engagement will be 20 July 2020.
HTE will arrange calls with the first 10 suppliers that express interest. HTE reserves the right to extend this number, should more suppliers come forward by the deadline and it is deemed widening the supplier input would provide benefit to determining the strategy. An email will be sent from the above email address to arrange calls, suppliers will be expected to respond within 3 days. If a Supplier does not respond in the given time frame, HTE reserves the right to contact the next available supplier.
The supplier engagement will take the form of conference calls, which will be arranged at a convenient time with the supplier and HTE representatives at 19 George Road, Edgbaston, B15 1NU. Supplier engagement will be carried out in accordance with Regulation 40 and 41 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
Please note we do not require suppliers to provide a presentation for this engagement. The pre-market engagement will consist of questions around the types of service your organisation provides and insight to the current market.


Award value: 30000000