# Administration and Delivery of Benefit Services for Former British Coal Corporation Employees

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by DESNZ.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [DESNZ](/buyers/desnz/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD](/suppliers/capita-business-services/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £6,000,000
- Tender value: £9,000,000
- Award date: 8 September 2025
- Published: 15 September 2025
- Contract start: 1 April 2026
- Contract end: 31 March 2031
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: cad415c4-d561-46bb-9f5c-493349394ec0-863522
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-46094ce5-402c-48ac-8662-57d213ab108d

## Description

In March 1995, following privatisation of the coal industry, HM Government inherited a legal obligation to certain former employees of the coal industry to fulfill a contractual legacy entitlement to an amount of solid fuel or cash-in-lieu of that fuel\. This contract covers matters such as fraud and error, irrecoverable losses, instructions on solid fuel entitlements and management of cash entitlements\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cad415c4-d561-46bb-9f5c-493349394ec0-863522)