Health and social work services

Tender description

The service will provide information, advice and support to people who use a Direct Payment in Lancashire. This includes information regarding Direct Payment set up, budgeting, employer responsibilities, payroll and supported banking. Please see service specification for further details regarding the service. The authority intends to commission a Direct Payments support service in Lancashire. The tender can be found on the authority's oracle sourcing portal under the RFQ Number: 15252341. Amended versions of the tender are denoted at the end of the RFQ Number by a comma followed by an amendment number. Search results should display any and all amended versions of the tender. The latest version is determined as being the RFQ Number with the highest amendment number. You may only make a submission against the latest amendment. Where you have made a submission against a tender that is subsequently amended you will be required to resubmit prior to the submission deadline. The service will provide information, advice and support to people who use a Direct Payment in Lancashire. This includes information regarding Direct Payment set up, budgeting, employer responsibilities, payroll and supported banking. The service will be available to individuals in Lancashire who have been assessed as having eligible social care needs and for those already in receipt of social care services or newly assessed. The contract term will be 3 years with an option to extend the contract by any number of defined periods provided that the total contract period does not exceed 6 years. The potential annual contract value is 750 000 GBP. Please see the tender documents for more information.