Award of pEPR Scheme Financial Services Supplier Contract to Accenture (UK) Limited

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Defra awarded a contract to Accenture (UK) Limited for a Financial Services Supplier (FSS) as an outsourced managed service under the pEPR Scheme.

The contract, valued at £19,488,125.29, covers invoicing of not less than 8,000 Obligated Producers annually, collection of disposal fees including chasers and reminders, contact management for producer and local authority queries related to disposal fee Notice of Liability and payments, local authority grants, and scheme compliance, reconciliation and escalation of overdue producer disposal fees, reconciliation of debt and escalation of uncollected debt after standard debt collection activities, grant administration to pay all UK local authorities via formula grant, grant monitoring using data from producers and local authorities via Defra, payment of local authority data charges for the costs of providing information to the Scheme Administrator, and balancing of revenue and payment for the Scheme Administrator.