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NS&I has today started the procurement process for its new operational services contract. This follows the publication of a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in June 2011 and an Industry Day held for prospective suppliers in July.

NS&I today announced the latest stage in its programme to simplify and modernise its savings range, and to grow the number of customers transacting with it directly by post, phone and online.

For the November 2011 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million prizes, together amounting to over £53 million in value. There were 42,738,583,013 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Sassoon, has appointed Sir John de Trafford Bt. MBE as the new Chairman of the board of NS&I. Sir John will take up his new appointment from 1 January 2012.

NS&I today announced that its Savings Certificates, both Fixed Interest Savings Certificates and Index-linked Savings Certificates, have been withdrawn from general sale.

NS&I has published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to notify the market that a procurement exercise for NS&I’s operational services is planned to start in autumn 2011.

5-year Index-linked Savings Certificates and Fixed Interest Savings Certificates reintroduced today.

The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Sassoon, has extended Martin Gray’s term as the Chairman of the board of NS&I by one year to 31 December 2011.

NS&I (National Savings and Investments), the government-backed savings and investments provider, today announced its annual results for the year to 31 March 2010 and for the first quarter of 2010-11.

Changes to balance the interests of NS&I’s savers, taxpayers and the wider financial services marketplace.