Administration services

Tender description

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is looking to appoint a supplier to provide a grants administration and payments service in respect of 2 grants schemes. Essentially the services will entail: — Creating visible grant schemes, including setting up a website for the schemes and documented guidance, which will replace the current website provision, — Checking applications made against criteria specified by the department, — Processing of applications and handling rejected applications, — Processing of payments, — Processing complaints and appeals. We wish to appoint a provider to administrate the Listed Places of Worship (LPW) and Memorial Grants Schemes (MGS). The current annual scheme budget of up to £42m is funded to continue at this level through to 31 March 2020 and has paid out since its inception approximately £223m. LPW and MGS are demand led schemes and throughput may fluctuate each year. We anticipate that the value of this contract will be within the range of £500,000-1,400,000. However, this is indicative only, we provide no guarantee of volumes and value may be higher or lower depending on demand for the scheme.