Official UK procurement notice
Dynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Service
Authority: Southend-on-Sea City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionService Title: Dynamic Market or Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Services
Contract Type: Framework Agreement procured via a Dynamic Market under Light Touch Regime.
6 months (with the option to extend for up to a further 6 months)
Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking bidders to be awarded a place on a Framework to provide Direct Payment Services within the Adult and Social Care Requirement.
Scope:
This Service is commissioned pursuant to:
- Section 31-33 of the Care Act 2014
- The Care and Support (Direct Payments) Regulations 2014
- Section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (where applicable)
- Children and Families Act 2014 (where applicable for children and young people)
Direct Payments are provided to enable the Individual to arrange their own care and support.
Where Personal Assistants are employed, the Individual or their Authorised Person is the legal employer.
Successful suppliers will be made available for selection by the Council's Service users, who will contact and contract with those successful suppliers through this Framework
CPV: Payroll management services · Personnel and payroll services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£450,000
- Condition of participation
Suppliers will be required to evidence previous experience working in a similar service or project, but not necessarily within the Public Sector or with a Local Government Authority. Suppliers without the required experience will be required to evidence they have the skills and expertise to perform the required services.
Suppliers who have been awarded a position on the framework will need to provide the required insurances, but not before award and can pledge to have these in place at award.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: The award criteria for this Framework has been stated previously in this notice. Part 1 and Part 3 Assessments are Pass/Fail, and bidders are not compared or ranked. Instead, suppliers awarded a place on the Framework will be selected by Service Users on the basis of their Pricing Information. Contracts between the awarded suppliers and the service users will not be bound by the timescales of this Framework Agreement. These contracts procured through the Framework Agreement will be able to exist past the Framework Agreement expiry.
- Condition of participation
Suppliers will be required to evidence previous experience working in a similar service or project, but not necessarily within the Public Sector or with a Local Government Authority. Suppliers without the required experience will be required to evidence they have the skills and expertise to perform the required services.
Suppliers who have been awarded a position on the framework will need to provide the required insurances, but not before award and can pledge to have these in place at award.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - by reference to dynamic market
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Call-off under a framework
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Nov 2025, 10:29 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Nov 2025, 10:29 GMT
- Authority reference
DN797441- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-073844- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e122Find a Tender
- Call-off under framework Dynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account Services
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 May 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Participation fee
- success fee · No fees will be charged to suppliers.
Please use the E-procurement Supplier Guide attached to this Notice to access the platform and the requirement. Suppliers will be required to express their interest (EOI) to gain access to the Project within the system.
Suppliers will be required to sign-up and register with Procontract. This is a simple process and support is offered by the site's owner if required.
Please make sure that you review the guidance documentation carefully, and ensure your response meet the criteria of the question or assessment you are responding to.
As a Dynamic Market, the Council will use Rounds to evaluate suppliers, each with their own deadline. These timelines will be communicated on the e-souring platform. Bidder's who fail in one round are able to re-submit in another round. Each submission is specific and therefore there can be no cross over in what the Council evaluates.
PLEASE NOTE: The Submission Deadline included is for Round 1. Further Rounds will be used, and the submission deadlines will reflect each round, at the Authority's discretion.
Timeline
14 Nov 2025 → 19 May 2026 · 3 dates- Tender notice published342 days ago14 Nov 2025, 10:29 GMT
- Submission deadline158 days ago17 May 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts157 days ago19 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published14 Nov 2025, 10:29 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications This is a step by step user guide where bidders can sign-up to the Council's E-sourcing provider and access the project and the associated tender and contractual documentation. Bidders should search for this requirement within the e-sourcing platform by using the name of this pr…
- Bidding documents and specifications This is the ITT Document, or bidder's guide, to the Dynamic Market. Please note that all documents and procedures are subject to change during the tender process, and will be updated on the Project page on the e-sourcing platform.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender