Bailiff services

Tender description

LGSS revenues and benefits are seeking to explore a framework for the delivery of our enforcement agent and collection services. The service will cover: — Milton Keynes Council, — Northampton Borough Council, — Horsham District Council (New Partner), — Cambridgeshire County Council, — Northamptonshire County Council, — other interested parties associated with LGSS R and B or LGSS partners. At this stage the debt types include but are not limited to: — Council Tax, — Business Rates, — Sundry Debt including Adult Social Care, — Parking (enforcement stage at MKC), — Former Tenants Arrears, — Housing Benefit Overpayments, — Commercial Rent Arrears, LGSS are at this point considering a number of options: — single provider framework, — a framework of 2 providers acting as a primary and secondary supplier, — a service concession route, activated through dialogue and service level agreements, with one or more providers. LGSS is the shared services venture set up by founding partners Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) and Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), with Milton Keynes Council (MKC) becoming a third partner in April 2016. LGSS offers a fully integrated support service. The partnership was formed in response to the challenges faced by local authorities, namely, the public sector funding crisis, impact of the recession, rising expectations and growing demand, and seeks to reduce the cost of support services through the consolidation of resources, process redesign and exploitation of technology. LGSS revenues and benefits are seeking to explore a framework for the delivery of our enforcement agent and collection services. The service will cover: — Milton Keynes Council, — Northampton Borough Council, — Horsham District Council (New Partner), — Cambridgeshire County Council, — Northamptonshire County Council, — other interested parties associated with LGSS R and B or LGSS partners. At this stage the debt types include but are not limited to: — Council Tax — Business Rates — Sundry Debt including Adult Social Care — Parking (enforcement stage at MKC) — Former Tenants Arrears — Housing Benefit Overpayments — Commercial Rent Arrears LGSS are at this point considering a number of options: — single provider framework, — a framework of 2 providers acting as a primary and secondary supplier, — a service concession route, activated through dialogue and Service Level Agreements, with one or more providers. If you are interested in discussing any thoughts or ideas you might have to this end, we would like to invite you to discuss your services with LGSS as part of a market engagement days to be held on 5.11.2018 and 8.11.2018. If you would like to participate in one of the market engagement day please contact Karen Cheadle to arrange a date and time (Karen.cheadle@milton-keynes.gov.uk). Please note that this notice has been issued by LGSS purely for information seeking purposes and doesn't form part of the procurement process. This market testing exercise is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. This document does not form any part of an invitation to tender. Interested parties should note that a response to this does not guarantee an invitation to tender for any service advertised. Conversely, not participating in the market engagement exercise will not exclude any party from any involvement in the procurement process. LGSS/the Authority is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any provider participating in the market engagement exercise.