# Provision of Insolvency Services for DWP

> Pre-procurement notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Crown Commercial Service](/buyers/crown-commercial-service/contract-awards)
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Stage: pre_procurement
- Notice ID: 052fc033-529b-4945-bff2-3c7ebfe3c911-86511
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-459c5f21-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

This requirement is being run on behalf on an arms-length body within the DWP called Disabled People’s Employment Corporation Ltd \(DPEC\)\. DPEC is a Non-Departmental Public Body of the DWP\. DPEC has ceased operations and we now intend to close the company via a solvent liquidation\. We require the service of Insolvency Practitioners to support us in this work\. This procurement is for a contract for the services of suitably licensed Insolvency Practitioners to help us in broadly two ways: First, we require general advice about the best ways to manage the remaining assets and liabilities that DPEC holds, and to help us plan the eventual winding-up\. Second, we will subsequently require the Insolvency Practitioner to undertake the formal winding-up of the company\. Further information can be found regarding this requirement within a draft Appendix B – Service Description document \[attached\]\.

## Related contract awards

- [Construction Professional Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ef9d53d6-d412-4bf4-a5cc-856df493e69d): Crown Commercial Service
- [Audit and Assurance Services Two \(A&AS2\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-134ddb7b-5d67-4256-819f-96af62f09e23): Crown Commercial Service
- [The Provision of Workday Licences](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bf5442b9-cd6a-45f9-8b27-72a80f29e560): Crown Commercial Service

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/052fc033-529b-4945-bff2-3c7ebfe3c911-86511)