PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

McCloud Administration Support Services

NHS Business Services Authority · published 17 Nov 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID38762ebc-3298-462e-a6d7-0b996d65e426-872500
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-df523f12-d658-405a-9c67-f075190c5cb0
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-180785
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£6,245,000
award field
Tender value
£6,245,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
66141000
Pension fund management services
Delivery
Not stated
NE15 8NY
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This is a call-off contract from the LGPS Pensions Administration Operational Support Services framework agreement for the provision of pensions administration support services. This will increase NHSBSA capacity to process manual calculations as part of the NHS Pensions McCloud Programme. This is a short-term interim agreement until a longer-term strategy for delivering this requirement for the McCloud Programme is finalised and can then be shared with the market ahead of any procurement activity.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release17 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published2 Oct 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published2 Oct 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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EQ Paymaster

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SOURCE

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Published 17 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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