# SC22223 - C-Care Technology Resilience Voucher Scheme

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Kent County Council](/buyers/kent-county-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: 360vista Ltd
- Award value: £250,000
- Tender value: £250,000
- Award date: 8 September 2022
- Published: 20 December 2022
- Contract start: 16 September 2022
- Contract end: 17 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1c5d8be0-75b5-4acb-941b-d2de93ae6e9a-600613
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c591fd84-3549-4fa2-8d3f-6e353fa27512

## Description

C-Care is cross-Channel Interreg project which aims to respond to some of the socio-economic challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic\. C-Care is led by Kent County Council and involves 3 other English and 3 French partner organisations who are jointly implementing the project\. C-Care will provide support to businesses and individuals at risk of exclusion in the France-Channel England area to aid economic recovery\. As part of this project, the Growth & Communities Division within GET is leading on a technology resilience voucher pilot scheme to provide support to Kent businesses\. The scheme was launched in November 2021 when Kent SMEs could start to apply for vouchers\. A framework of suppliers was procured during the summer of 2021 which resulted in seven suppliers being selected and approved to provide services to Kent businesses under the voucher scheme\. A total number of 385 applications were received between November 2021 and June 2022 and 320 were approved\. However, 74 \(23\.12%\) of these which have been withdrawn - the main reason being given by SMEs was a lack of a suitable supplier on the framework to deliver the service they wanted\. Not every lot was filled by suppliers and only 4 of the 7 suppliers have actually been selected by beneficiary SMEs to complete a voucher project\. Some current suppliers have also indicated that they are very near to reaching full capacity to deliver voucher projects\.

## Related contract awards

- [SESLIP DPS - ICB data dashboards](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b50fff1c-27fc-4071-ac3a-cc29d330a855): KENT COUNTY COUNCIL
- [SESLIP DPS - Targeted Support run-off](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bcd05e66-ab1f-4537-899b-0d52c65f4260): KENT COUNTY COUNCIL
- [SESLIP DPS - Project Support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-270a9f03-310b-4ea0-b581-49b95d429eb2): KENT COUNTY COUNCIL

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1c5d8be0-75b5-4acb-941b-d2de93ae6e9a-600613)