National Audit Office Cabinet Office Spinning Out Mycsp As A Mutual Joint Venture Hc 538

Download or read book National Audit Office: Cabinet Office: Spinning-out MyCSP As A Mutual Joint Venture - HC 538 written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's first mutual joint venture MyCSP, which administers pensions for 1.5 million civil service employees, has the potential to be good value for money with a projected saving of 25 per cent on costs after seven years. However, the complexity of the deal combined with poor quality of data, initial planning, and infrastructure meant that it took the Cabinet Office longer than intended to finalise the transaction. Furthermore, the Department and MyCSP still face many large challenges in transforming the service. The biggest challenge is improving data to support the implementation of the new 2015 pension scheme. The deal is projected by the Department to reduce the cost of administration by 25 per cent, to £13 per member per year by 2019. Scheme members should receive a better quality of service as a result of significant investment in the business by the private sector partner, Equiniti Paymaster, and a payment mechanism that penalizes MyCSP if it misses the service standard levels in the contract. The deal also means that MyCSP now has a credible plan to meet the challenges of the 2015 civil service pension reforms, including data improvement. The Department did not initially make the most of the opportunities to learn from this transaction as a pathfinder, but has now reviewed the lessons learned from executing the transaction and has put in place an evaluation strategy. The Cabinet Office must now ensure it evaluates the longer-term comparative performance of MyCSP and captures and disseminates the lessons learnt from the deal.