Tender Summary

21049-23 CCC Insurance Brokerage and Associated Services

Buying Organisation

Cambridgeshire County Council

Contract Value

£300,000 to £420,000

Suitable for SMEs

Yes

Suitable for VCSEs

Yes

Tender Description

The Authority requires the provision of expert and respected insurance brokerage services to
enable it to achieve the most appropriate insurance programme for the organisations it
represents.
The bidder shall be required to provide high quality, timely and focussed advise on all
matters of insurable risks and insurance solutions, particularly as they impact on any key
projects that the organisations undertake.
The bidder shall ensure they have an appropriate level of skill and experience with sufficient
capacity to ensure that the Council's receive the required levels of service to agreed
timescales.
The Authority is not splitting this contract into lots as it wishes to procure a single broker for
consistency in delivery and in order to support the Lead Authority Model.

Cambridgeshire County Council is the lead authority for all aspects of insurance services to
the lead authority partners.

Each Authority's insurance arrangements are managed by a dedicated team which forms
part of the Cambridgeshire County Council Lead Authority Services Provision.
In addition to providing insurance services to the Lead Authority partners the Insurance
Service also provides insurance services to the following organisations:

Norwich City Council, including Norwich City Services Ltd
Northampton Partnership Homes
Pathfinder Legal Services Ltd
Cambridge City Council
Maintained and Academy Schools

The Insurance Service delivers

Insurance Programme Management
Provision of Insurance and insurable risk related advice
Claims Management Service

The service provides professional, high quality insurance services and is responsible for
ensuring that insurable risks are identified and catered for within the partner's insurance
arrangements as well as the control and management of insurable risk, the raising of
managerial awareness of operational and strategic pressures, and the minimising of risks
which could adversely affect service delivery and lead to civil litigation.

The Procurement is being procured by the Lead Authority for the benefit of the Authority and
the Partner Organisations. For the purposes of this tender the partner organisations are
Milton Keynes Council, West Northamptonshire Council North Northamptonshire Council,
Norwich City Council and Northamptonshire Partnership Homes.

The Authority have invested in an e-tendering tool in order to facilitate its tendering
processes in a compliant and transparent manner.
Potential Providers will need to register an account via the "Procontract Portal" at
https://procontract.due-north.com/Register before being able to view the full tender details.
In order to access the tender documentation, click "Find Opportunities", then on the drop down menu, filter by "Cambridgeshire Public Services" by clicking on "Update" to find the
relevant opportunity or alternatively within the organisations drop down select
Cambridgeshire County Council to also find the relevant opportunity.

Tender categories (products & services required)

Financial and insurance services (CPV 66000000)
Insurance services (CPV 66510000)

Region

North East (UKC)

Buyer Information