Scope
Reference
DN793772
Description
The Direct Payment Support Service (DPSS) provides essential information and advice to people and parent/carers of children/young people who receive a direct payment from the Council or fund their own care and support. The service helps people to find, recruit and pay for the types of care and support they wish to receive. This enables people with care needs to have greater choice and control over the care they receive. The service under the proposed contract has been mainly used by adults but is also available for children/young people with a direct payment.
Value - £120,778.35
This transparency notice is to notify the market that Peterborough City Council intends to direct award a contract to Peterborough Council for Voluntary Services (PCVS) for the Direct Payment Support Service Contract, which will run from 1st November 2025 to 30th September 2026. This will allow the Local Authority sufficient time to carry out preliminary market engagement and run a full competitive tender.
The Direct Award is being made under the Procurement Act 2023, Light Touch, Schedule 5, Paragraph 13:
(a)the goods, services or works to be supplied under the public contract are strictly necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency
The urgency is not attributable to any act or omission of the contracting authority and could not have been foreseen.
The Direct Payment Support Service is closely interlinked with the adult's social care direct payment finance system, which requires significant back end maintenance work in, in order to separate out the two contracts.
The Council will be observing a voluntary 8 working day standstill period starting from Tuesday 21st October 2025 and concluding at midnight on Thursday 30th October 2025. Any representations should be sent to helen.davies@peterborough.gov.uk during this period.
Contract 1. Direct Payment Support Service
Supplier
Contract value
- £120,778.35 excluding VAT
- £120,778.35 including VAT
Below the relevant threshold
Earliest date the contract will be signed
31 October 2025
Contract dates (estimated)
- 1 November 2025 to 30 September 2026
- 11 months
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 85300000 - Social work and related services
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Participation
Particular suitability
Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Procedure
Procedure type
Below threshold - without competition
Special regime
Light touch
Supplier
PETERBOROUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
- Companies House: 02119687
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDZZ-1517-ZRZW
Pcvs Allia Future Business Centre
Peterborough
PE2 8AN
United Kingdom
Email: chris.dewilde@pcvs.co.uk
Website: http://pcvs@pcvs.co.uk
Region: UKH11 - Peterborough
Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No
Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): Yes
Contract 1. Direct Payment Support Service
Contracting authority
Peterborough City Council
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PLXM-3229-WVQH
Sand Martin House Peterborough, Bittern Way
Peterborough
PE2 8TY
United Kingdom
Contact name: Helen Davies
Telephone: +441733 747474
Email: helen.davies@peterborough.gov.uk
Website: https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/business/supplying-the-council/supply-opportunities
Region: UKH11 - Peterborough
Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government