Pensions Subject Matter Experts

NHS Business Services Authority
North East
Selective procedure
22 April 2025 to 21 April 2026

Provision of highly skilled subject matter experts to manage increased pension workloads, including redundancy estimate requests, end-to-end retirement calculations, and pension payments. The work specifically addresses complex McCloud Judgement remedies and the production of Pension Savings Statements for impacted members, ensuring alignment with DHSC expectations and timelines.

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Awarded value: £6.5m; As published
Published: 8 May 2025
Awarded: 22 April 2025; Equiniti
Contract length: 12 months; Ends 21 April 2026

What the contract covers

Call-off from a framework agreement

Provision of specialist pension administration and subject matter expertise to support complex public sector pension scheme calculations and compliance.

Redundancy estimate requests, end-to-end retirement calculations, putting pensions into payment, and producing Pensions Savings Statements for impacted McCloud members in the context of NHS Pension Scheme remedies for age discrimination following the 2015 reforms

Terms and requirements

Contract type: Call-off from a framework agreement
Procedure: Selective procedure
Initial term: 12 months
Contract dates: 22 April 2025 to 21 April 2026
Certifications asked for: None stated
Suitable for SMEs: Not stated
Category: Services
CPV codes: 66141000

Services in this contract

Pension scheme administrationMain service£275k typicalPensions subject matter experts for McCloud remedy calculations and retirement processing

Lifecycle

Published
8 May 2025
Contract awardedto Equiniti
22 April 2025
Contract starts
22 April 2025
Contract ends
21 April 2026

The buyer

NHS Business Services Authority

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Equiniti

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Cite this contract

Link: https://bidskim.com/tender/116724/pensions-subject-matter-experts
Buyer reference: CF-3021200D0O000000rwimUAA
Open contracting ID: ocds-b5fd17-5da6d59b-d741-425e-b24e-d51d5422878d
Last checked: 5 November 2026

NHS Business Services Authority. Pensions Subject Matter Experts. Contract award, 8 May 2025. BidSkim, https://bidskim.com/tender/116724/pensions-subject-matter-experts (accessed 5 November 2026).