Pensions Administration Operational Support Service Framework

Norfolk County Council on its own behalf and on behalf of the Pension Funds listed below wish to let a Multi-Provider Framework Agreement for the provision of specialist operational support for pension administration services primarily in the support of The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

• Cheshire West and Chester Council (as Administering Authority of the Cheshire Pension Fund)
• Essex County Council (as Administering Authority of the Essex Pension Fund)
• Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (as Administering Authority of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund)
• City of Wolverhampton Council (as Administering Authority of the West Midlands Pension Fund)

This framework may also be used by:

• Any LGPS administering authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/2356) (as amended) including the Firefighters' Pension Scheme and Police Pension Schemes and any of their participating employing authorities, or in relation to the LGPS in Scotland, any administering authority and any of their scheme employers as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/141) (as amended),
• NILGOSC in Northern Ireland and employing authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (SRNI 2014/188) (as amended),
• The Board of the Pension Protection Fund.
• Local Government Association (LGA)
• Any other administering authority or scheme manager of a public-sector pension scheme or any public-sector body that requires pensions related services, and
• Any LGPS Fund(s) or groups of funds, or any bodies, organisations or companies established by them for the purpose of operating on a collective basis.

This Framework will be split into Lots.

Contracts awarded under the framework may have a maximum total duration of 5 years.

No contract awarded from the framework will be permitted to extend beyond 10th January 2036.