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Market Engagement Exercise for Appointeeship Banking Services

Sunderland City Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 30 Sept 2026, 00:33.

Opportunity overview

The Financial Safeguarding Team (FST) is part of Adult Services within Sunderland City Council (The Council). The FST has a responsibility to effectively manage the finances of clients where the council act as deputy or appointee. These roles include opening a bank account for the client, setting up regular payments for their utilities and care fees, making one off payments, ensuring the client has access to weekly money via a pre-paid card or card account and receiving benefits into the client's bank account on their behalf. Scope of the System The FST require a robust, bespoke, intelligent, value for money, web-based solution to positively support the FST to manage all aspects of a client's property and financial affairs in accordance with the Council and OPG standards. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION The Council are seeking feedback from the market regarding the proposed solution a detailed within associated documentation.

Classification

  • CPV66110000 — Banking services

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-050904
Status
planning
Main Procurement Category
services

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2030, 23:59
Starts
1 May 2026, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKC
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 2
Region
UKC
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
66110000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Banking services

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
017565-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
29 Apr 2025, 11:51
Entry 2
Id
019999-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
9 May 2025, 11:37

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
21 May 2025, 23:59
Description
All documentation including a copy of an initial draft Specification and market engagement questions is available via the following link https://www.open-uk.org/opportunities/overview/public/d23d9130-6b3d-48f7-96f0-6ba746265725

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PLVZ-4154-GGRZ
Name
Sunderland City Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKC23
Country
GB
Locality
Sunderland
Postal Code
SR1 3AA
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
City Hall, Plater Way,

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Identifier

Id
PLVZ-4154-GGRZ
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Sunderland · UKC23 · SR1 3AA · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKC · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-050904-2025-05-09T11:37:03+01:00Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·