# General Banking Services

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED](/buyers/the-association-of-north-east-councils-limited/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [Barclays Bank PLC](/suppliers/barclays-bank/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £288,000,000
- Tender value: £288,000,000
- Award date: 5 March 2024
- Published: 5 March 2024
- Contract start: 14 March 2024
- Contract end: 13 March 2032
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 54d6547a-a989-43ec-87bc-7fe7b6062611-729025
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-df2f7d34-c001-4cb2-98ac-998a16e8e7a8

## Description

NEPO, in collaboration with ESPO and YPO, have established a multi-supplier Framework Agreement for the prevision of General Banking Services\. The service will be used to deliver core transactional banking arrangements, providing bank account structures to be used for outgoing payments such as creditor cheques, CHAPS, BACS, direct debits, standing order payments, balance requests, commission charges and associated interest payments\. Alongside these core transactional services, the Framework Agreement includes ancillary services which sit outside the core elements of the agreement, such as receipt accounts to receive payments, rent allowance accounts for benefit payments, wage accounts for staff salary payments and petty cash accounts and treasury deposits\. Additional information: NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015 \(PCR15\)\. The agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Members\. A list of member organisations is available in the About section of the NEPO website at: www\.nepo\.org This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members\. Current Associate Members are listed in the Associate Member section of the NEPO website at: www\.nepo\.org/associate-membership/list NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the UK \(as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015\) including but not limited to Government Departments and their Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Central Government, NHS Bodies, Local Authorities, Emergency Services, Coastguard Emergency Services, Educational Establishments, Registered Social Landlords and Registered Charities who have a need to purchase the above services\. A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website below: https://www\.nepo\.org/associate-membership/permissible-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance\. Further information can be found at: www\.nepo\.org

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/54d6547a-a989-43ec-87bc-7fe7b6062611-729025)