Health and social work services

Tender description

Oxfordshire County Council and the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group require an effective, efficient and economical Direct Payment Support Service to ensure that flexible, high quality support is available for recipients of Direct Payments. The Direct Payment Support Service is divided into 2 separate lots and providers can bid for either or both. The lots are: Lot 1 — Direct Payments Information and Advice Service Lot 2 — Direct Payments Account Support and Payroll Service The contract(s) will be for three years with an option to extend for a further two years. The indicative contract start date is 24.1.2018 The subject matter of this procurement process relates to the delivery of services which are listed to in Schedule 3to the regulations. As such the full regime set out in the regulations will not apply to the award of the contract. Consequently, the procurement process adopted by the Commissioners has been developed in accordance with Regulation 76. Lot 1 — Direct Payments Information and Advice Service The contract will be for three years with an option to extend for a further two years. The indicative contract start date is 24th Jan 2018 The subject matter of this procurement process relates to the delivery of services which are listed to in Schedule 3to the regulations. As such the full regime set out in the regulations will not apply to the award of the contract. Consequently, the procurement process adopted by the Commissioners has been developed in accordance with Regulation 76 of the regulations and in particular in accordance with the fundamental public procurement principles of transparency and equal treatment. For the avoidance of doubt this means that the Commissioners have not adopted the open procedure (as such term is defined in the regulations) for the undertaking ofthis procurement process. The fact that in this Contract Notice at Section IV.1) the field/box relating to type of procedure may default to the term ‘Open’ does not mean that this procedure is being followed by the Commissioners. Lot 2 — Direct Payments Account Support and Payroll Service The contract will be for three years with an option to extend for a further two years. The indicative contract start date is 24.1.2018 The subject matter of this procurement process relates to the delivery of services which are listed to in Schedule 3to the regulations. As such the full regime set out in the regulations will not apply to the award of the contract. Consequently, the procurement process adopted by the Commissioners has been developed in accordance with Regulation 76 of the regulations and in particular in accordance with the fundamental public procurement principles of transparency and equal treatment. For the avoidance of doubt this means that the Commissioners have not adopted the open procedure (as such term is defined in the regulations) for the undertaking of this procurement process. The fact that in this Contract Notice at Section IV.1) the field/box relating to type of procedure may default to the term ‘Open’ does not mean that this procedure is being followed by the Commissioners.