Market Engagement- Direct Payments Support Service

Direct Payments are cash payments given to service users in lieu of community care services they have been assessed as needing, and are intended to give users greater choice in their care. A support service could/might offer service users with help with Recruitment, Payroll, Information Advice and Guidance, DBS checks, Pension support etc. Direct payments confer responsibilities on recipients to decide how their eligible needs are met, either by employing people, often known as personal assistants, or by commissioning services for themselves.

Service users can get support in fulfilling these responsibilities from direct payment support services commissioned by local authorities. The County Council are looking to re-tender its current support service in accordance with the Care Act 2014.

As part of the scoping we are looking to engage with providers to receive some market feedback. If you are interested in this future tender opportunity and/or interested in providing feedback please register your interest on www.staffordshire.alito.co.uk Once you have registered you will receive updates including when the procurement process starts.

For the avoidance of doubt this is not a call for completion, it is a pre-procurement market engagement. Once registered please search Alito for reference SCHG00147 and register your interest.

Interested parties will be invited to a market feedback session on 21st July to discuss the potential specification and to provide an opportunity to ask any further questions. Procurement documents for the tender opportunity are like to be published on Alito towards the end of September 2015.