Direct Payment Pre tender Market Engagement

Direct Payment Pre tender Market Engagement

Southampton City Council has been working with key stakeholders to design a new Direct Payment support service. The service will, if approved, have many familiar elements including

• host and facilitate a Personal Assistant in Care and Support (PA) online platform (secured via SCC), including recruitment of PAs • provide more specialised information, advice and support (above that available in mainstream Advice Information and Guidance (AIG) services) to people needing additional assistance to manage a Direct Payment (DP) and / or help with PA employment issues; and • help with PA employment issues

In addition the service will be integral to the development, hosting and facilitation of a new Support Planning and Brokerage (SPB) element, including an online platform and recruitment of services onto the platform.

We are currently obtaining the necessary approvals to put out a tender for this service, which will attract an annual budget in the region of £130,000 per annum. However, mindful if approvals are given we will be working to very tight timescales to secure a service to start from 1 April 2020.

If this opportunity interests you and you have capability to manage our need, please register on our portal https://supplysouthampton.esourcingportal.com/ and contact us on tendermangement@southampton.gov.uk for any questions.

The indicative dates for the tender are as follows Tentative Tender publish - 25th October, 2019 Tentative Market day event - 31st October, 2019, You will be notified about this event on the portal link as given above.