General Banking Services

  • THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED

F14: Notice for changes or additional information

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-036826

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0377d9 (view related notices)

Published 2 July 2025, 2:22pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED

Northern Design Centre, Abbots Hill, Baltic Business Quarter

Gateshead

NE8 3DF

Contact

Nick McDonald

Email

corporate.services@nepo.org

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UK - United Kingdom

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.nepo.org


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

General Banking Services

Reference number

NEPO531

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 66000000 - Financial and insurance services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

NEPO seeks to establish a multi-supplier Framework Contract for the prevision of General Banking Services. It is envisaged that the service will be used to deliver core transactional banking arrangements, providing bank account structures to be used for outgoing payments such as creditor cheques, CHAPS, BACS, direct debits, standing order payments, balance requests, commission charges and associated interest payments.

Alongside these core transactional services, the framework agreement will include ancillary services which sit outside the core contract such as receipt accounts to receive payments, rent allowance accounts for benefit payments, wage accounts for staff salary payments and petty cash accounts and treasury deposits.


Section six. Complementary information

six.6) Original notice reference

Notice number: 2023/S 000-017637


Section seven. Changes

seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice

Section number

VI.3.

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NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as

defined in the Public Contract

Regulations 2015 (PCR15). This

means that NEPO may provide central

purchasing activity on behalf of

Contracting Authorities.

The agreement will be available for use

by all NEPO Members within the North

East region. A list of member

organisations is available in the About

section of the NEPO website at:

www.nepo.org (https://www.nepo.org)

This agreement will also be made

available to all current and future

NEPO Associate Members throughout

the North East region. Current

Associate Members are listed in the

Associate Member section of the

NEPO website at:

www.nepo.org/associatemembership/list

(https://www.nepo.org/associatemembership/list)

NEPO intends to make the resulting

agreement available for use by all

Contracting Authorities throughout the

North East region (as defined by the

Public Contracts Regulations 2015)

including but not limited to Government

Departments and their Agencies, NonDepartmental Public Bodies, Central

Government, NHS Bodies, Local

Authorities, Emergency Services,

Coastguard Emergency Services,

Educational Establishments,

Registered Social Landlords and

Registered Charities who have a need

to purchase the above services

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NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as

defined in the Public Contract

Regulations 2015 (PCR15). The

agreement will be available for use by

all NEPO Members. A list of member

organisations is available in the About

section of the NEPO website at:

www.nepo.org (https://www.nepo.org)

This agreement will also be made

available to all current and future

NEPO Associate Members. Current

Associate Members are listed in the

Associate Member section of the

NEPO website at:

www.nepo.org/associate[1]membership/list

(https://www.nepo.org/associate[1]membership/list)

NEPO intends to make the resulting

agreement available for use by all

Contracting Authorities throughout all

administrative regions of the UK (as

defined by the Public Contracts

Regulations 2015) including but not

limited to Government Departments

and their Agencies, Non-Departmental

Public Bodies, Central Government,

NHS Bodies, Local Authorities,

Emergency Services, Coastguard

Emergency Services, Educational

Establishments, Registered Social

Landlords and Registered Charities

who have a need to purchase the

above services.