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Hysbysiad o Gontract

Flexible Benefits Portal

  • Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf: 12 Mawrth 2025
  • Wedi'i addasu ddiwethaf: 12 Mawrth 2025
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Nid yw'r prynwr yn defnyddio'r wefan hon i weinyddu'r hysbysiad.

I gofnodi eich diddordeb neu gael gwybodaeth neu ddogfennau ychwanegol, darllenwch y cyfarwyddiadau yn Nhestun Llawn yr Hysbysiad. (NODER: Nid oes angen ymateb i Hysbysiadau Dyfarnu Contractau a Hysbysiadau Gwybodaeth Ymlaen Llaw fel arfer)

Rydych yn gweld hysbysiad sydd wedi dod i ben.

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Crynodeb

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-04e3cf
Cyhoeddwyd gan:
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED
ID Awudurdod:
AA80781
Dyddiad cyhoeddi:
12 Mawrth 2025
Dyddiad Cau:
19 Mawrth 2025
Math o hysbysiad:
Hysbysiad o Gontract
Mae ganddo ddogfennau:
Nac Ydi
Wedi SPD:
Nac Ydi
Mae ganddo gynllun lleihau carbon:
AMH

Crynodeb

Northumbrian Water Ltd is looking to appoint a supplier to deliver an Employee Flexible Benefits Platform. This platform should offer a range of competitive benefits through an intuitive and user-friendly portal, allowing employees to easily access and choose their benefits.

• Number of colleagues - 3,500

• Workforce: predominately operational/field-based; support and corporate functions office/homebased

• Number of payrolls: 1 per month

• Benefit year runs April to March

• Annual enrolment is a 3-week window currently February/March benefits selected during the main election window need to be effective on 1st April each year. Annual enrolment should allow our colleague's opportunity to make the most of our exclusively negotiated deals and offers. Benefits can also be made from National Insurance and/or tax savings when payments are made through monthly salary.

• Most benefits are 'anytime', so are available throughout the year and can be selected each month. Exceptions, which are only available at main election window are currently Buying Holiday and Private Healthcare.

• Voluntary benefits: Mixture of Gross pay (Salary Sacrifice- either tax and NI, Tax only, NI only) or Net Pay deductions.

Testun llawn y rhybydd

Hysbysiad contract - cyfleustodau

Adran I: Endid contractio

I.1) Enw a chyfeiriad

NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED

02366703

Northumbria House

DURHAM

DH15FJ

UK

Person cyswllt: Holli Crawford

Ffôn: +44 7562260809

E-bost: holli.crawford@nwl.co.uk

NUTS: UKC14

Cyfeiriad(au) rhyngrwyd

Prif gyfeiriad: https://www.nwl.co.uk/

I.3) Cyfathrebu

Mae'r dogfennau caffael ar gael ar gyfer mynediad uniongyrchol anghyfyngedig a llawn, yn rhad ac am ddim ar:

https://s1.ariba.com


Gellir cael gwybodaeth ychwanegol o'r cyfeiriad uchod


Rhaid anfon tendrau neu geisiadau i gymryd rhan yn electronig at:

https://s1.ariba.com


I.6) Prif weithgaredd

Dŵr

Adran II: Gwrthrych

II.1) Cwmpas y caffaeliad

II.1.1) Teitl

Flexible Benefits Portal

Cyfeirnod: NW2893

II.1.2) Prif god CPV

79414000

 

II.1.3) Y math o gontract

Gwasanaethau

II.1.4) Disgrifiad byr

Northumbrian Water Ltd is looking to appoint a supplier to deliver an Employee Flexible Benefits Platform. This platform should offer a range of competitive benefits through an intuitive and user-friendly portal, allowing employees to easily access and choose their benefits.

• Number of colleagues - 3,500

• Workforce: predominately operational/field-based; support and corporate functions office/homebased

• Number of payrolls: 1 per month

• Benefit year runs April to March

• Annual enrolment is a 3-week window currently February/March benefits selected during the main election window need to be effective on 1st April each year. Annual enrolment should allow our colleague's opportunity to make the most of our exclusively negotiated deals and offers. Benefits can also be made from National Insurance and/or tax savings when payments are made through monthly salary.

• Most benefits are 'anytime', so are available throughout the year and can be selected each month. Exceptions, which are only available at main election window are currently Buying Holiday and Private Healthcare.

• Voluntary benefits: Mixture of Gross pay (Salary Sacrifice- either tax and NI, Tax only, NI only) or Net Pay deductions.

II.1.6) Gwybodaeth am lotiau

Mae’r contract hwn wedi’i rannu’n lotiau: Na

II.2) Disgrifiad

II.2.2) Cod(au) CPV ychwanegol

72212450

II.2.3) Man cyflawni

Cod NUTS:

UKC

UKH14

UKH3

II.2.4) Disgrifiad o’r caffaeliad

Northumbrian Water Ltd is looking to appoint a supplier to deliver an Employee Flexible Benefits Platform. This platform should offer a range of competitive benefits through an intuitive and user-friendly portal, allowing employees to easily access and choose their benefits. With 3,500 employees accessing the benefits portal every day, we require a robust seamless platform to support their needs.

The tenderer is requested to submit a bid for providing services to host our Employee Benefits offering through a hub or portal. We seek a supplier who can collaborate closely with our internal HR, Payroll, and Communications teams to ensure that all aspects of the portal are accurate, data-validated, and aligned with our branding.

It is crucial that the implementation runs smoothly to avoid any impact on our employees. The procurement process for this tender will be done in advance. We plan to award the contract to the chosen supplier by end October 2025, with the contract commencing end October 2025. This will include up to a 12-month implementation period, with the contract's official go-live commencing no later than end September 2026.

NWGs Requirements

• The solution must provide a single system to search for and engage with all aspects of employee benefits, Providing a consumer grade experience.

• Provide a complete end to end Flexible benefit provision under the 'Tap Into' name including branding, design, transition, project delivery, platform, communications/engagement, brokerage, consultancy, help desk and ongoing administration assistance.

• Provide a fully flexible on-line platform/portal for NWG colleagues - we need to be able to transfer our own benefits NWG are currently contractually committed to and NWG offers alongside your own pool of benefits which you can offer.

• Provision of full benefit administration required, i.e., supplier to organise/administer benefit selections with the benefit providers directly.

• Provide a User-friendly portal accessible from multiple devices which allows colleagues to customise their benefits and view features Including impact on take home pay.

• Provide Flexible/Voluntary Benefits and offers in a way which is relevant and personal to every colleague wherever they work in our business.

• Deliver a rolling enrolment and selection proposition throughout the year rather than once yearly election window (where benefits will allow).

• Provision of branding and design to be used across all areas of the scheme including portal, devises, engagement, communications etc.

• Deliver a robust aspirational communication/engagement strategy for launch and ongoing throughout the year to meet the needs of a predominantly field based and remote work force; with a smaller group working from both home and office based. This should be in the form of both electronic and paper content e.g. will include production and delivery of brochures, z cards emails and more to all colleagues ahead of launch plus on-going engagement, communicating /marketing.

• Provide Management Information on usage, traffic through the site, payroll reports etc.

• Provide regular updates and progression of the scheme throughout the year with NWG Reward Team and recommendations for future development of the scheme via ongoing consultancy and support.

• Ability to review provision of colleague's benefits/offers and update throughout the contract should new initiatives be identified as desirable by supplier and NWG.

• Provision of ongoing consultancy throughout the duration of the contract.

• To provide a solution compatible with and enable to interface with NWG HRIS Oracle System, with real time data synchronisation.

• To be able to show compliance with relevant legislation when handling NWG colleague data e.g. Data Protection Act 2018 and to meet Inland Revenue rules.

• All benefits are required to be compliant in line with HMRC rules and guidelines.

• Suppliers must be able to demonstrate that their data flow provision is secure when sharing confidential information.

• The solution must provide detailed management information and a reporting suite to provide insight, engagement levels, and guide changes to the Flexible Benefit policies.

• Ability to move existing selected benefits into system to showcase full suite and take-home impacts.

Brokerage

• We would like you to provide a fully compliant brokerage service using your expert knowledge of the benefits market to source the most appropriate benefits and provide recommendations tailored to meet our needs. This will include all due diligence as well as an understanding of our scheme, colleagues, business needs to provide of a cost-effective solution. We expect you to handle the end-to-end process of procurement, contractual arrangements, administration of these benefits.

Voluntary Flexible Benefit Provision

• Provision of voluntary flexible benefits which are not funded by NWG (with exceptions - see above) which colleagues can choose according to their needs and where appropriate make Tax/NI savings or through salary sacrifice or via net pay arrangements.

Tax and National Insurance

• The Supplier will ensure that the Salary Sacrifice scheme complies with all relevant tax laws and employment regulations.

• The supplier will provide guidance on how the Salary Sacrifice scheme affects tax liabilities, National Insurance, and pension contributions.

• The supplier will keep up to date with any changes in tax legislation that may affect the scheme and adjust the offerings accordingly.

Portal

• NWG require to keep the 'Tap Into' name, the successful candidate will need to be able to provide an online portal for NWG and design, brand, build and implement the function to have availability on all devices including mobile phones, laptops, and tablets.

• All benefits and offers need to be hosted on the portal. Additionally, we need to be able to transfer our own benefits and offers which NWG are currently contractually committed to, alongside your own pool of benefits which you can offer onto the portal.

• A discounts/cashback module is also required to be housed on the portal, we currently have a contract in place with this which will need moved over.

• It is essential that the portal is designed to be the right solution for our colleagues and enable them to see and operate a user-friendly portal showing real time impacts on take home pay.

• An effective communication/engagement strategy needs to be established catering for both an on-line and off-line workforce with different levels of understanding and interest in technology to ensure they can access and use the portal effectively.

IT, Data Protection and Data Transfer

• We will require a Single Sign on Platform.

• Data protection is an important factor and it is essential that this is considered. Suppliers must be able to demonstrate that their data flow provision is secure when sharing confidential information.

• Data will be loaded into both ideally this will be through the supplier's portal integrating directly with Oracle HCM, we would like a way that NWG payroll can check the data ahead of it going into Oracle if this method was used.

Branding and Design of Communication/Engagement Management

• We want to deliver and give the Tap Into branding a refresh for launch and each year.

• We would prefer the same design feel as our current branding in place as it is suitable and fit for purpose to the NWG culture. NWG own the Tap Into Benefits brand and we do not want to change this name. Branding should be consistent across the whole scheme (portal, devises engagement and communications).

Communication and Engagement:

We may require the designs refreshed for launch and updating on an annual basis to deliver a robust aspirational communication /engagement strategy to provide us with both electronic and hard copy content e.g. z cards, emails, brochures leaflets and more which you feel necessary. NWG will provide some visuals for the designs, and we require the successful candidate to be able to create the content to meet the needs of a predominantly field based and remote work force; with a smaller group working from both home and office based.

Helpdesk

Provision of help and support is required to offer guidance on both portal, benefits, and services to be able to answer colleagues' queries. A helpdesk function is required to provide this support from Monday to Friday, ensuring both phone and online support is being provided to all NWG colleagues within this time. We would also require including the ability to submit online queries anytime to be responded to within 48 hours.

Account Management

To ensure the management of the contract is being run at its best ability, we would require the following continuous improvement actions to be put in place:

• Management Information & Dashboard Reports - Monthly reporting delivered to view as an online dashboard.

• During implementation a weekly teams call.

• Supplier's Account Manager, Named point of contacts. Monthly Teams Call

• Supplier will be required to meet their own costs in relation to travel etc to all client meetings/visits.

Customer service

One of our ambitious goals is to deliver world class service and unrivalled customer experiences for our customers - getting the things that matter most to them right first time, fast time, every time. To support this, we've introduced a training programme based on the Six Pillars of customer experience excellence which have been developed by KPMG Nunwood and are regarded as a best practice Customer Experience (CX) model used by companies across the world. The Six Pillars provide a framework for customer experience excellence that supports leading companies around the world in driving positive change in their businesses. We use them and our own take on the language that best enables us to speak to our customers. We would expect vendors customer service to align with our ideals.

II.2.5) Meini prawf dyfarnu

Nid pris yw’r unig faen prawf dyfarnu a dim ond yn y dogfennau caffael y mae’r holl feini prawf wedi’u nodi

II.2.7) Hyd y contract, y cytundeb fframwaith neu’r system brynu ddynamig

Hyd mewn misoedd: 36

Gall y contract hwn gael ei adnewyddu: Na

II.2.9) Gwybodaeth am y cyfyngiadau ar nifer yr ymgeiswyr a gaiff eu gwahodd

II.2.10) Gwybodaeth am amrywiadau

Derbynnir amrywiadau: Na

II.2.11) Gwybodaeth am opsiynau

Opsiynau: Ydy

Disgrifiad o’r opsiynau:

The period of any contract(s) resulting from this procurement will be 36 months from the contract start date.

The length of the contract may be extended by negotiation with the supplier for a further 36 months following by a further 24 months (8 years in total).

It is anticipated that we will need up to 12 months implementation and this will be included in the initial 36 months of the contract.

II.2.13) Gwybodaeth am Gronfeydd yr Undeb Ewropeaidd

Mae'r broses gaffael yn gysylltiedig â phrosiect a/neu raglen a ariennir gan gronfeydd yr Undeb Ewropeaidd: Na

Section III: Gwybodaeth gyfreithiol, economaidd, ariannol a thechnegol

III.1) Amodau ar gyfer cymryd rhan

III.1.1) Addasrwydd i ymgymryd â’r gweithgaredd proffesiynol, gan gynnwys gofynion mewn perthynas â chofrestru ar gofrestri proffesiynol neu gofrestri masnach

Rhestr a disgrifiad byr o’r amodau:

As stated in the procurement documents

III.1.2) Statws economaidd ac ariannol

Rhestr a disgrifiad byr o’r meini prawf dethol:

As stated in the procurement documents


Lefel(au) gofynnol y safonau sydd eu hangen:

As stated in the procurement documents

III.1.3) Gallu technegol a phroffesiynol

Rhestr a disgrifiad byr o’r meini prawf dethol:

As stated in the procurement documents


Lefel(au) gofynnol y safonau sydd eu hangen:

As stated in the procurement documents

III.1.4) Rheolau a meini prawf gwrthrychol ar gyfer cymryd rhan

As stated in the procurement documents

III.1.6) Adneuon a gwarantau sy’n ofynnol:

As stated in the procurement documents

III.2) Amodau sy’n gysylltiedig â’r contract

Section IV: Gweithdrefn

IV.1) Disgrifiad

IV.1.1) Y math o weithdrefn

negodi gyda galwad am gystadleuaeth

IV.1.8) Gwybodaeth am Gytundeb Caffael y Llywodraeth (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Na

IV.2) Gwybodaeth weinyddol

IV.2.2) Terfyn amser i dendrau neu geisiadau i gymryd rhan ddod i law

Dyddiad: 19/03/2025

IV.2.4) Ym mha iaith/ieithoedd y gellir cyflwyno tendrau neu geisiadau i gymryd rhan

EN

Section VI: Gwybodaeth ategol

VI.1) Gwybodaeth am ailddigwydd

Caffaeliad cylchol yw hwn: Na

VI.3) Gwybodaeth ychwanegol

Applicants are asked to note that this procurement process will be conducted electronically with all documents and communication being managed through the Northumbrian Water eSourcing Spend Management portal called 'Ariba'.

Expressions of interest for this tender must be sent to the e-mail address holli.crawford@nwl.co.uk before the deadline date of 19th March 2025 at 12 noon. Once expression of interest has been received that contains the details below, applicants will be given access to the Ariba portal within 48 hours from request.This portal will contain all the tender documents associated with this procurement that are available at the time. An email link will also be provided to the email address you provide to access the portal.

The deadline for return of the completed PQQ is 31st March 2025 at 12 noon. When sending expression of interest, applicants must provide the following information:

1) Full company name

2) Main contact details of the person who will be given access to the Ariba portal - Name, job title, email address and phone number.

VI.4) Gweithdrefnau adolygu

VI.4.1) Corff adolygu

NWL Legal Department

Northumbria House

Durham

DH15FJ

UK

Ffôn: +44 7562260809

E-bost: holli.crawford@nwl.co.uk

VI.5) Dyddiad anfon yr hysbysiad hwn

19/02/2025

Codio

Categorïau nwyddau

ID Teitl Prif gategori
72212450 Gwasanaethau datblygu meddalwedd cyfrifyddu amser neu adnoddau dynol Gwasanaethau rhaglennu meddalwedd rhaglenni
79414000 Gwasanaethau ymgynghori ar reoli adnoddau dynol Gwasanaethau ymgynghori ar fusnes a rheoli

Lleoliadau Dosbarthu

ID Disgrifiad
100 DU - I gyd

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Mae’r prynwr wedi cyfyngu’r rhybuddion ar gyfer yr hysbysiad hwn i gyflenwyr yn y rhanbarthau canlynol.

ID Disgrifiad
Nid oes cyfyngiadau ar y rhybuddion ar gyfer yr hysbysiad hwn.

Ynglŷn â'r prynwr

Prif gyswllt:
holli.crawford@nwl.co.uk
Cyswllt gweinyddol:
N/a
Cyswllt technegol:
N/a
Cyswllt arall:
N/a

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