work with various insurance providers (both generalist and specialist)
a wide range of coverage options, giving you increased competition to a diverse customer base across the public sector
provides all classes of insurance, including health and life insurance
all suppliers are Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) registered
all suppliers have signed up to the public service contract which includes terms that cover GDPR, prompt payment, Carbon Net Zero and social value
approved claims handling service for the public sector
The following Carbon Reduction section will appear at the bottom of the benefits section. It may not be relevant to all agreements. If this is the case you can suggest its removal when filling out the template. You will need to let us know why you feel it should be removed.The wording of the section is standardised across all agreements and should not be changed.
Access to a range of insurance brokers and services such as insurance placement for all classes of insurance. Also offers a wide range of support services including:
general advice and consultancy
actuarial services for analysing risk claims handling
Lot 3: Insurance Service Providers and Related Services
Access to insurance providers for:
social housing customers
Appointed insurance brokers under lot 3 will access the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) RM6138 for pricing of their customer’s social housing insurance needs.
Read the buyer guide in the document section and review the call off terms and conditions for the framework.Before selecting your supplier, you can undertake fair and transparent pre-market engagement activity with the framework suppliers through our eSourcing suite:
The pack will contain a pricing matrix. It also has supplier answers to frequently asked questions to help you make an evaluation. The information in the pack is commercially sensitive and is not available on our website.Direct awards can only be issued under the following conditions:
lot 1 - if the anticipated call off agreement charges/fees do not exceed £50,000 per year (excluding insurance premium and VAT)
lot 3 - if the anticipated call off agreement charges/fees do not exceed £15,000 per year (excluding insurance premium and VAT)
the call off terms and conditions do not require any amendments
the contracting authority is satisfied with the pricing element of the direct award
Further competition
You can carry out a further competition under lots 1, 2 and 3.You will need to manage the process in line with your requirements and processes. If you want information about running further competition through our eSourcing suite, take a look at our buyer guide in the documents section below.Your further competition should:
specify a fixed time limit for submission of proposals, including factors such as the complexity of the services, your insurance requirements and the time needed to submit a proposal
seek proposals for fulfilling all your insurance requirements, including agreement to any special terms proposed by you
contain a copy of the order form, completed as if it were the actual order you would place
You should then:
evaluate the proposals received
notify all invited service providers of the outcome
place the resulting order with the service provider who has submitted the most economically advantageous tender
