FSCS is seeking to award three individual Service-Provider contracts for the provision of Secure Cheque Printing and Mailing Services comprising the following:

Mobilisation:

— Put in place standby and payment services capable of anytime short notice invocation.

— Supplier project management of design, including End to End testing, through to implementation of standby-service.

Standby Services:

— Cheque base-stock and envelope stock production and storage capability, or outsource/sub-contract facilities for same.

— Security around plant, stock and process consistent with sensitive materials and mail handling, and accredited cheque production.

Payment Services:

— Printing, enclosing and dispatching cheques to the required standards within the required timeframes.

— Receiving data for up to one million records on Day 1, and ensuring all records are dispatched by last post before the end of Day 4 (exceptions apply to non-Business days).

— Receipt/transmission of data in FSCS prescribed pipe delimited .txt format via FSCS SFTP, Error handling and Management Information Reporting over invocation period via same protocol.

— Returned mail handling and reporting facility.

Each Lot of External Cheque Provider Services will be the same and it is intention that FSCS will award the contracts to the Tenderer having submitted the most economically advantageous tender to supply Lot 1, then Tenderer of the second most economically advantageous tender to Lot 2 and the Tenderer of the third most economically advantageous tender to Lot 3.

The work to be allocated to the Service-Providers is on a tiered basis so that Lot 1 is preferred followed by Lot 2 and then Lot 3.