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Direct Payments Support Service

Health and social work services
North West (UKD4)
Published value
£5,760,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Lancashire County Council: "Direct Payments Support Service". Published status: planned. Published value: £5,760,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityLancashire County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£5,760,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Lancashire County Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Lancashire County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
7.8Bids / Report
7.1% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
STEPPING STONE PROJECTSTop vendor: 31.1% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 95 active published awards; 14 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
STEPPING STONE PROJECTS1 win£322,000
JMU SERVICES LIMITED1 win£314,238
CONSTRUCTION MARINE LIMITED1 win£216,667
JENOPTIK UK LIMITED1 win£180,940
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityLancashire County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published23 Jan 2026, 08:27 GMT
Last source update23 Jan 2026, 08:27 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth and social work services
Delivery area
North West (UKD4)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0513e4
What is being bought
Direct Payment Support Service in Lancashire offers Information and advice, payroll support, support to recruit Personal Assistants and supported banking services for individuals in receipt of a direct payment.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £5,760,000
    23 Jan 2026, 08:27 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    23 Jan 2026, 08:27 GMT
  3. tender value changed
    15 May 2025, 09:40 BST
  4. Status changed to planned
    15 May 2025, 09:40 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    15 May 2025, 09:40 BST
  6. Buyer information updated
    15 May 2025, 09:40 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    23 Jan 2026, 08:27 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    23 Jan 2026, 08:27 GMT
  3. engagement
    13 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    Lancashire County Council is in the process of undertaking a review and redesign of Direct Payments Support Services. The Council is yet to determine how these services will be commissioned and in future, different elements of the service may be delivered by one or more providers. Our operating model, Living Better Lives in Lancashire, guides how we work and make decisions. We are passionate about promoting people's wellbeing and independence and have more than 4000 people in receipt of a Direct Payment. The Council's intention is to move to a Direct Payments first model and increase the numbers of people who can benefit from directing their own support. We are interested in hearing from providers who have innovative solutions to supporting people with Direct Payments and Individual Service Funds to enhance our support offer. We are also interested in hearing from support providers who offer Independent Individual Service Funds. We wish to engage with key stakeholders who can deliver all or some of the proposed service elements in relation to some of the key elements of the Service, including changes from the existing provision. If you would like to take part in our review process, please send an expression of interest including 'Direct Payments' in the subject of the email to awpicomm@lancashire.gov.uk by 4pm on Friday 13th February 2026.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Lancashire County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PBBJ-2179-TNXM
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published