Tender for Financial Consultancy Services
Claims Processing and Remediation Services.
United Kingdom-London: Financial consultancy services
2014/S 086-150894
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Financial Services Compensation Scheme Limited
10th Floor Beaufort House, 15 St Botolph Street
Contact point(s): Procurement Team
For the attention of: Peter Quinn
EC3A 7QU London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2073758192
E-mail: fscs212@fscs.org.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.fscs.org.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 6: Financial services a) Insurances services b) Banking and investment services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
NUTS code
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 4
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in months: 48
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 10 000 000 and 50 000 000 GBP
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Interested parties are invited to express interest in Claims Processing and remediation services in relation to the following types of Claim;
– Investments
– Home Finance
– Insurance Intermediation
– Deposits
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
66171000, 66172000, 66170000, 79410000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Set out below is a description of the types of claims FSCS receives, historical volumes, expected BAU volumes and the volumes FSCS may need to deal with if a large default occurred and the activities generally required to process claims and complete other related tasks.
Claim Types:
Investment claims
Investment claims processed by FSCS relate to Designated Investment Business in relation to a Designated Investment, as defined by the FCA’s Glossary: http://fshandbook.info/FS/html/FCA/Glossary
In the case of most investments, FSCS can consider claims in relation to business conducted on or after 28 August 1988.
Designated Investments encompass a broad array of product types, including (but not limited to);
– Personal Pension Plans
– Shares
– Collective Investment Schemes
– Endowments
– Derivatives
– Investment Bonds
The types of claim which FSCS will commonly see include;
– Claims against IFAs and other intermediaries in relation to the suitability of investment advice given
– Mismanagement claims, for example in relation to how funds were managed on a discretionary basis or the failure to follow investment instructions
– Misappropriation / theft; where investor funds were stolen or proceeds not passed back to the investor
– Misleading literature or misrepresentation; where promotional materials were inaccurate and the investor based their investment decision on misleading or incorrect information
– Property claims; the non-return of funds or assets held by an authorised firm on behalf of an investor that cannot be returned following the insolvency of the authorised firm
Home Finance claims
Home Finance claims processed by FSCS relate to Regulated Mortgage Activity in relation to a Regulated Mortgage Contract, as defined by the FCA’s Glossary: http://fshandbook.info/FS/html/FCA/Glossary
The following are regulated Home Finance transactions;
– Regulated mortgage contracts: Regulated from 31 October 2004
– Home purchase plans: Regulated from 6 April 2007
– Home reversion plans: Regulated from 6 April 2007
FSCS can only consider claims relating to the three types of Home Finance transaction from the date that the relevant type of transaction was first regulated.
Home Finance claims seen by FSCS typically relate to advice given by an intermediary to take out a Regulated Mortgage Contract, although FSCS has also seen some claims in relation to the misappropriation of funds in connection with a Regulated Mortgage Activity.
Insurance Intermediation claims
Insurance Intermediation claims processed by FSCS relate to Insurance Mediation Activity in relation to a Contract of Insurance, as defined by the FCA’s Glossary: http://fshandbook.info/FS/html/FCA/Glossary
Insurance mediation business was first regulated by the Financial Services Authority on 14 January 2005; FSCS can consider claims in relation to business conducted since this date.
By far the biggest category of Insurance Intermediation claim seen by FSCS to date relates to advice to take out Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). However, FSCS has also dealt with claims in relation to;
– Return of premium (e.g. premiums stolen or not paid to the insurer, so no cover is effective)
– The non-delivery of settlement proceeds or premium rebates or refunds
– Where the policyholder made a claim under a policy and no policy had been affected or, due to negligent advice, the policy did not cover the claim made.
Deposit Claims
Claims that arise from a failure of any PRA authorised deposit taking institution such as banks, building societies and credit unions.
Since 1 January 2011 all eligible individuals and small businesses receive compensation within twenty working days; this is required under the Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive (DGSD). Within the UK there is also a stated requirement to pay the majority of claims within seven calendar days.
Towards this, deposit taking institutions are required to keep up-to-date information as to deposits held with them by their eligible customers on a ‘Single Customer View’ (SCV) file, to allow quicker processing of claims. In the event of a failure of a deposit taking institution, the deposit taker in default is required to send the SCV file to FSCS for processing.
FSCS will verify the contents of the deposit taker’s SCV file and pay out compensation automatically on all verified claims within seven days.
Deposit tasks required include (but are not limited to);
– Manually assessing the ‘not fit for straight through payout’ claims
– Manually assessing accounts where ownership of the funds is not clear from the deposit taker’s records (e.g. where an account holds client funds or accounts held by trusts). These claims are referred to as ‘SCV exclusion’
– Post payment activities, including, re-issuance of payments, top-up payments and other customer initiated activities are also undertaken.
Claims Processing & Remediation Services
The suppliers will undertake some or all of the following Claims Processing and remediation services (note that not all claims are subject to all of the activities):
– Mobilisation;
o Technical enablement and support for claims management systems and data links
o Recruitment of competent staff, including completing necessary vetting
o Initial and ongoing training of staff on policies and procedures required to process claims
o Service readiness testing
– Initial Contact Function
o Pre-screening support
o Registration Support
o Customer support over
– Undertake evidence checking and data gathering which will involve the following;
o Triage of evidence received to ensure it meets the minimum requirements for claim type
o Requesting (by telephone, letter, fax, email or other agreed method) from third parties (such as the claimant, providers of financial services products or financial regulators) such information as is necessary to complete the claim
o Monitoring and recording evidence received
o Chasing and closing non-respondents
o Provision of supporting MI
– Undertake calculation of compensation amounts which will involve the following;
o Calculation of loss in accordance with the FSCS’s relevant procedures
o May include use of specialist calculation tools (e.g.Redress Manager)
– Undertake an eligibility assessment which will involve the following;
o Assessment of particulars of claim against the FSCS’s rules and policies
o Sanctions checking
– Obtain sign-off and distribute of Decision documentation (Uphold or Rejection notifications) which will involve the following;
o Formal review and sign-off of claim by an accredited individual
o Merging relevant claim information to template document
o Provision of supporting MI
– Make Payment which will involve the following;
o Issuing of compensation payments to claimants
– Undertake other related activities which may involve the following;
o Doing initial review of claims assigned to outsourcers to ensure they are correctly assigned
o Consultancy services to work with and assist FSCS on in-house tasks
o Dealing with incoming enquiries (by telephone, letter, fax, email or other agreed method) in relation to claims or potential claims being processed, including use of the FSCS online portal to submit claims
o Initiating, documenting, assisting and piloting changes and improvements to processes
o Identifying, monitoring and mitigating risks
o Integrating own claims management system and provision of data exchange data with FSCS system, if required
o Participation in audit or assurance tasks
o Post Pay-out activity related to claims paid initiated by the claimant. (This may be in the form of correspondence, telephone calls, emails or re-sending payments etc.)
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 10 000 000 and 50 000 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
Description of particular conditions: Details set out in the ITT (Invitation to Tender)
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Details set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
Prior information notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2014/S 33-053632 of 15.2.2014
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
Applicants are required to e-mail fscs212@fscs.org.uk in order to lodge their expression of interest for the procurement. Upon receipt, a user-name and password will be issued so to access the FSCS secure web portal in order to review the PQQ documents.
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
The High Court of England & Wales
UNITED KINGDOM
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: