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Blackburn with Darwen

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council are seeking to commission Self Directed Support Services DPS Framework.

HealthcareCPV 85321000
Value£5.0m
Deadline31 Mar 2024
Published15 Mar 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 15 Mar 2023ClosedCloses 31 Mar 2024
Who to contact
Ms Hira Miah
Hira.Miah@blackburn.gov.uk
+44 1254505675

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£5.0mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council are extending the existing DPS seeking to commission Self Directed Support Services DPS Framework for a further 12 month period.

To increase the uptake of direct payments, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council requires effective, efficient and economical Direct Payment Support Services, to ensure flexible, high quality provision is available to recipients of direct payments.

The role is to support, plan and enable people to direct their own support, as reflected in national and local strategic approaches.

The DPS Framework will be tendered in five lots.

Support Planning and Brokerage Services Managed Account Service Finding and employing a PA Payroll Service Employer support

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council are extending

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council are extending the existing DPS seeking to commission Self Directed Support Services DPS Framework for a further 12 month period.

02

To increase the uptake of direct payments

To increase the uptake of direct payments, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council requires effective, efficient and economical Direct Payment Support Services, to ensure flexible, high quality provision is available to recipients of direct payments.

03

The role is to support, plan

The role is to support, plan and enable people to direct their own support, as reflected in national and local strategic approaches.

04

Support Planning and Brokerage Services Managed Account

Support Planning and Brokerage Services Managed Account Service Finding and employing a PA Payroll Service Employer support.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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