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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Staffordshire County Council

Direct Payment Support Service

HealthcareCPV 85300000 98000000 79211000
Value£1.2m
Awarded13 Apr 2016
Published17 Mar 2016
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.2mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The provider will be contracted and paid by Staffordshire County Council for the provision of the following: A Direct Payment Support Service which will fully support and guide the Individual through the DP set up, ongoing process and management once they have decided they want a DP.

Support will be available to individuals who use their DP to become an employer, and for those who purchase services to meet their care needs (via agencies for example), and for Service Users whom choose to source equipment that helps to deliver their outcomes.

The Service User may be eligible to receive additional services as described in the service specification, as determined by the Referring Agent and paid by the Referring Agent.

If the Service User is not eligible for additional services, they can choose to purchase additional services and pay for them themselves, and select a provider of their choosing, or use the provider awarded the contract for this service specification.

Additional services are a Managed Account and Individual Service Fund service and would be payable at the rates secured by the procurement exercise

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The provider will be contracted and paid

The provider will be contracted and paid by Staffordshire County Council for the provision of the following: A Direct Payment Support Service which will fully support and guide the Individual through the DP set up, ongoing process and management once they have decided they want a DP.

02

Support will be available to individuals who

Support will be available to individuals who use their DP to become an employer, and for those who purchase services to meet their care needs (via agencies for example), and for Service Users whom choose to source equipment that helps to deliver their outcomes.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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