Overview
Lots
The Framework is split across 7 Lots:
- Lot 1 - Integrated Service Provider (ISP)
- Lot 2 - Address Tracing and Correction Services
- Lot 3 - Mortality Screening Services
- Lot 4 - Overseas Address Tracing and Address Correction Services
- Lot 5 - Overseas Proof of Life and Mortality Screening Services
- Lot 6 - Bank Account Verification Services
- Lot 7 - Data Quality Reporting for Pension Dashboard Readiness
There are 11 providers on the Framework split across the 7 Lots:
| Provider | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accurate Data Services Ltd | |||||||
| Bravura Solution Services Ltd | |||||||
| Capita Pensions Solutions | |||||||
| Civica UK Ltd | |||||||
| Crown Agents Bank | |||||||
| GB Group | |||||||
| Heywood Ltd | |||||||
| Independent Transition Management Ltd | |||||||
| LexisNexis Risk Solution | |||||||
| Target Professional Services UK Ltd | |||||||
| The Tracing Group Ltd |
FAQs
Procurement can take significant time and money both for the awarding Authority and the Service Provider. The National LGPS Frameworks are fully compliant with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. It reduces the time and costs associated with the procurement process by offering a facility that has already been competitively tendered. It aims to deliver access at the best possible price to high-quality, efficient, and effective Integrated Service Providers (ISP) and Member Data Services Providers. Benefits include:
- Shortened timescales
- Reduced procurement and legal costs
- Robust and transparent process with high level of due diligence and specialist support
- Agreed Terms and Conditions of contract with providers
- Enable access to specialist providers whose experience and quality has been tested
- Comprehensive user documentation and support from Frameworks team
- Provider ceiling prices established
- Possibility to benefit from cumulative rebates
The Framework may also be used by:
- Any LGPS Administering Authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/2356) (as amended) including the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme and Police Pension Schemes and any of their participating Employing Authorities, or in relation to the LGPS in Scotland, any Administering Authority and any of their Scheme employers as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/141) (as amended);
- NILGOSC in Northern Ireland and Employing Authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (SRNI 2014/188) (as amended)
- The Board of the Pension Protection Fund; (http://www.pensionprotectionfund.org.uk)
- Any other Administering Authority or organisation of a Public Sector Pension Scheme or any Public Sector body or that requires pension related services;
- Any common asset pool or collective investment vehicle established by or on behalf of an Administering Authority or group of Administering Authorities; or
- Any bodies, organisations or companies established by them for the purpose of operating on a collective basis.
The Integrated Service Providers (ISP) and Member Data Services Framework is open from April 2024 until March 2028.