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FOI 129: Information about Special Manager Panel 2020 Tender Process

Updated 15 February 2021

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Our ref: FOI20/21-129

Date: 13 November 2020

Dear,

Re: Freedom of Information Request 2000

Thank you for your email of 09 November in which you requested from the Insolvency Service:

I am writing to you to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please send me the following in relation to the Insolvency Service's Special Manager Panel 2020 Tender Process:

  1. A list of all businesses that made an application to join the above panel

  2. A list of all businesses who were successfully appointed to the above panel

  3. A list of all businesses who were unsuccessful in the above tender process

  4. The complete scoring and/or evaluation matrix along with any supplementary commentary by insolvency service staff re: all businesses that made an application to join this panel.

  5. If not covered at point 4, specific reasons why each unsuccessful applicant was not appointed to the above panel.

  6. Copies of all submitted tender applications for this panel

If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of confidentiality, I would ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement in the invitation to tender documentation

Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

I have provided the requested information below.

  1. A list of all businesses that made an application to join the above panel – Suppliers that submitted a bid:

  2. Deloitte LLP
  3. KPMG LLP
  4. Alvarez & Marsal (Europe) LLP
  5. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  6. RSM
  7. Mazars LLP
  8. AlixPartners UK LLP
  9. Duff & Phelps Ltd
  10. CVR Global
  11. Azets Holdings Ltd
  12. FTI Consulting
  13. Earnst & Young LLP
  14. BDO LLP
  15. Grant Thornton UK LLP
  16. FRP Advisory Trading

  17. Begbies Traynor Group

  18. A list of all businesses who were successfully appointed to the above panel:

  19. PwC
  20. EY
  21. KPMG
  22. Deloitte
  23. BDO
  24. Grant Thornton
  25. AlixPartners
  26. FTI Consulting
  27. Alvarez & Marsal

  28. RSM

  29. A list of all businesses who were unsuccessful in the above tender process – This information can be identified from the answers provided in Question 1 and Question 2.

  30. The complete scoring and/or evaluation matrix along with any supplementary commentary by insolvency service staff re: all businesses that made an application to join this panel. – This is confidential, and we would not release such information to anyone who wasn’t the bidding supplier.

  31. If not covered at point 4, specific reasons why each unsuccessful applicant was not appointed to the above panel. - This is confidential, and we would not release such information to anyone who wasn’t the bidding supplier.

  32. Copies of all submitted tender applications for this panel - This is confidential, and we would not release such information to anyone who wasn’t the bidding supplier.

If you are not satisfied with the response we have provided you and would like us to reconsider our decision by way of an internal review (IR), please contact our Information Rights Team at foi@insolvency.gov.uk or by post at:

Information Rights Team
The Insolvency Service
3rd Floor
Cannon House
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6FD
United Kingdom

You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you wish for them to investigate any complaint you may have regarding our handling of your request. However, please note that the ICO is likely to expect an IR to have been completed in the first instance.

Kind regards,

Information Rights Team

The Insolvency Service

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