GB-Sheffield: fraud analytics

NOTE: This notice was updated on 09 September 2021 for the following reason: Summary of changes:

This addendum corrects the previous addendum by correcting the value from £1,500,000 to £1,600,000.(A call off contract has been awarded to Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP ("PwC") under Lot 2 of the Crown Commercial Service's Management Consultancy Framework Two (RM6008) ("Framework").

The Framework was advertised in a contract notice published in the Official Journal of European Union. The notice is available at the following link: https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:155197-2018:TEXT:EN:HTML. Further information about the Framework can be found on the Crown Commercial Service's website at the following link: https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6008.

The call off contract concerns CBILS, BBLS and CLBILS (the "Coronavirus Business Interruption Schemes"). In particular, under the call off contract, PwC is responsible for identifying potential fraud indicators within the BBLS portfolio.

In June 2021, British Business Financial Services Limited agreed to extend the term of the call off contract. At the same time, the scope of the contract was varied to include fraud sampling analysis of CBILS and CLBILS.)