Finance System for Brunel Pension Partnership

Concepts

• financial systems
• bristol
• brunel pension partnership
• system
• partnership
• pension
• brunel
• finance
• accounting software
• software package

Location

BRISTOL

Description

Brunel requires a supplier to provide a Finance System which needs to meet a range of requirements to support Brunel's financial management and reporting needs.

Total Quantity or Scope

Brunel requires a finance system to support its financial management and reporting needs. The system will primarily be for use by Brunel's Finance team, with wider access to the organisation for purchase order and goods received notes. The finance system must be capable of the following: Cloud-based vendor-managed solution with critical support access 24x7. Multi-currency capabilities. Provide export, drill down and drill back capabilities into Microsoft Excel. Multi-year & cross year reporting. Real time dashboards with key business metrics and report snapshots. Support production of statutory financial accounts with compliance to UK GAAP. Support creation of corporate tax returns and analysis, including VAT MTD submissions. Provide departmental reporting, and support budgeting and forecast variance analysis. Management and processing of purchase orders, goods received notes, payment of invoices, bank reconciliations, BACS payments, production of sales invoices and expenses sign-off. Ability to upload transactions via csv upload. Fixed asset management including asset process accounting automation and real time asset reporting. Access to sandbox environment. Access to online learning training services. Ability to support future growth with modular approach for areas such as planning and budgeting, payroll and procurement. Able to integrate with BACS software (e.g. Bottomline) as a bureau via automated process. Bank feed facility to pull transactions for bank reconciliation.

Renewal Options

The contracting authority's current expectation is that the contract will have an initial term of 36 months, with an option for the contracting authority to extend the contract by up to 24 months, resulting in a maximum potential contract term of 60 months. However, the contracting authority reserves the right to reconsider this prior to issuing the Invitation to Tender The contracting authority's current expectation is that the contract will have an initial term of 36 months, with an option for the contracting authority to extend the contract by up to 24 months, resulting in a maximum potential contract term of 60 months. However, the contracting authority reserves the right to reconsider this prior to issuing the Invitation to Tender

CPV Codes

• 48442000 - Financial systems software package
• 48443000 - Accounting software package

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

Tenderers who express their interest will be issued with a selection questionnaire (SQ). Responses to the SQ will be evaluated against the criteria detailed in the SQ and suppliers who are successfully selected to continue through to the invitation to tender (ITT) phase will be issued with the ITT Pack. Tenderers wishing to express their interest should provide their full company name and address and most suitable contact details to procurementsubmission.brunel@brunelpp.org