Employee Benefits and Services

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    "description": "This Framework will provide a compliant, flexible, and outcomes-focused route to market for public sector organisations seeking to procure the delivery of employee benefits and services including but not limited to:\n\u2022Childcare vouchers\n\u2022Cycle to work scheme\n\u2022Employee assistance programmes\n\u2022Financial wellbeing scheme\n\u2022Green car scheme\n\u2022Learning and development programme\n\u2022Leisure facility discounts/gym memberships\n\u2022Payroll giving scheme\n\u2022Retail store discounts and promotions\n\u2022Reward and recognition scheme\n\u2022Subscription discounts\nBidders will be expected to be able to provide all services listed above either directly or via sub-contractors/partners.\nThe provision of employee benefits needs to be designed to enhance wellbeing, support financial stability, encourage personal development, and promote a positive work-life balance, Suppliers must be able to meet the following requirements:\n\u2022Services to be accessible to all employees and adaptable to diverse needs and lifestyles. \n\u2022Customers must be able to access benefits via an online platform, access the platform 24/7, 365 days a year. \n\u2022The online platform should offer flexibility to meet any Customer requirements that may arise.\n\u2022Suppliers must cover the provision of confidential, accessible, and inclusive support services to employees, designed to promote mental, emotional, financial, and legal wellbeing. \n\u2022Services may be delivered in-person, online, or via telephone, and should be available to all employees regardless of location or working pattern.\n\u2022Staff must be qualified and competent to carry out any intended services. \n\u2022Advice and support to be carried out is to be delivered, where possible, ensuring the employees work performance, health and wellbeing is impacted as little as possible.\nTo Respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/89AH82H73Q\nTo view this notice, please click here: \nhttps://csg.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=1004292370",
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        "buyerCategories": "4.1.This Framework is for use by Customers in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies that exist on 05/01/26 and which fall into one or more of the following categories:\n\u2022Ministerial government departments\n\u2022Non ministerial government departments\n\u2022Executive agencies of government\n\u2022Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), including advisory NDPBs, executive NDPBs, and tribunal NDPBs\n\u2022Assembly Sponsored Public Bodies (ASPBs)\n\u2022Police forces\n\u2022Fire and rescue services\n\u2022Ambulance services\n\u2022Maritime and coastguard agency services\n\u2022NHS bodies\n\u2022Educational bodies or establishments including state schools (nursery schools, primary schools, middle or high schools, secondary schools, special schools), academies, colleges, Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), further education colleges and universities\n\u2022Hospices\n\u2022National Parks\n\u2022Housing associations, including registered social landlords\n\u2022Third sector and charities\n\u2022Citizens advice bodies\n\u2022Councils,",
        "description": "Overview of framework operation\nThis framework will be established under the Procurement Act 2023. It enables Contracting Authorities identified in the UK4 notice to award call\u2011off contracts for the Services during the framework term. Call\u2011off contracts may be awarded using the methods described below, subject to the Award Criteria and conditions set out in the associated tender documents\n9.Call-Off Contract Award\nCall-Off Contracts may be awarded using any one of the following methods outlined below.\n1.Direct Award (Award Without Competitive Selection)\n2.Rapid Request for Quote (Rapid RFQ)\n3.Further Competition\nThe ultimate responsibility for selecting the most appropriate and compliant route for a specific requirement rests with the Customer. The onus will be on the Customer to carry out their own due diligence before selecting which method to use.  The Customer will determine the requirement, specification and award, based on the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT)\nDirect Award (award without a competitive selection):\nThis Framework permits Direct Award, defined under the Procurement Act 2023 as awarding a Call-Off Contract without conducting a new competitive selection procedure. A Direct Award may only be used where the Customer can identify the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT) using only the information and scores submitted at Framework award, without requesting any new pricing, clarification, or qualitative information from Suppliers.\n\u2003\nPermitted Direct Award Methods\nCustomers may use any of the following objective, pre-published Direct Award methods. The Customer must choose one method before reviewing Supplier capability for their requirement.\n1. Overall Framework Ranking (Quality + Price Combined Score)\nThe Customer awards the Call-Off Contract to the Supplier ranked highest overall at Framework award. If the highest-ranked Supplier cannot meet the requirement, the Customer must document the reason and move sequentially to the next ranked Supplier. We anticipate this to be the default Direct Award method.\n2. Highest Total Quality Score\nThe Customer may award to the Supplier that achieved the highest total quality score for each Lot during Framework evaluation, where quality is the Customer\u2019s primary consideration.\n3. Lowest Overall Price/Highest Commercial Advantage\nAward to the Supplier offering the lowest evaluated Framework price as submitted in Annex H.\nThis method:\n\u2022must use the original evaluated Pricing Schedule\n\u2022must not use catalogue pricing or non-evaluated price lists\n\u2022must not request revised or updated pricing\nIf new pricing is required, this method is not suitable and Customers must choose another method. \n4. Highest Score in a Specific Evaluation Question\nAward to the Supplier with the highest score in a specific Framework evaluation question that directly relates to the Customer\u2019s requirement.\nThis method may only be used where:\n\u2022the question formed part of the Framework quality evaluation\n\u2022scoring was completed by the Contracting Authority\n5. Partial-Service Selection (Specific Services from the Pricing Schedule)\nWhere a Customer requires only a subset of the services available under the Framework, a Direct Award may be made using the original per-service prices submitted at Framework award.\nA Customer may compare only the relevant per-service prices and award to the Supplier whose evaluated per-service prices represent the Most Advantageous Tender.\nThis method is only permitted where:\n\u2022All prices used are from the original evaluated Pricing Schedule\n\u2022No new or updated pricing is requested\n\u2022The comparison is applied consistently and objectively\n\u2022No new weighting or qualitative assessment is introduced\nCatalogue pricing or non-evaluated price lists cannot be used to determine MAT.\nWhere new pricing or new information is required, the Customer must conduct a competitive call-off selection process.\nRequirements for Direct Award\nCustomers should retain an auditable record setting out:\n\u2022the Direct Award method selected;\n\u2022the objective rationale for that method;\n\u2022the comparison or ranking used;\n\u2022(if applicable) why a higher-ranked Supplier could not meet the requirement.\nCustomers must not:\n\u2022request revised or updated pricing\n\u2022request new qualitative information\n\u2022introduce new award criteria\nTransition to competitive call-off selection process\nIf the Customer cannot objectively determine the MAT using only Framework-award information (e.g., new pricing is required, new service models are proposed, or qualitative responses are needed), the Customer must run a competitive call-off selection process.\nCompetitive Call Off Selection Process:\nRapid RFQ\nA Rapid RFQ is a streamlined competitive process appropriate for low-complexity or tightly defined requirements where essential criteria can be specified as Pass/Fail, and price acts as the ultimate determinant among compliant Suppliers\nBest For: Requirements needing a specific, verifiable skill, where price is the deciding factor after that essential need is met.\nA Further Competition process is used where Customers carry out a competition for the award of a Call-Off Contract.  \nA Further Competition is required where:\n\u2022the Customer needs updated or new pricing\n\u2022qualitative responses are needed\n\u2022service proposals need tailoring\n\u2022new information is required\n\u2022the requirement is complex or high-value\nBest For: Complex projects, high-value Call-Off Contracts, and any situation where the quality of the solution is a critical factor.",
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