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Personal Independence Payments (PIP) Assessment Service - Contract Extension - Lot 2

Health and social work services
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department for Work and Pensions: "Personal Independence Payments (PIP) Assessment Service - Contract Extension - Lot 2". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDepartment for Work and PensionsScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Coverage: 38 active published awards; 12 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDepartment for Work and Pensions
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
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CompetitionNot published
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Published25 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
Last source update25 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth and social work services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02c08c
What is being bought
Further to the VEAT notice issued on 10 July 2020 REF. NO 2020/S 135-333754 of July 2020 notice, DWP shall enter into a Contract Variation of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment services Lot 2 Contract with the incumbent supplier following a period of 10 days from the date of publication of this notice. The Contract Variation provides for an extension of two (2) years from 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2023.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    25 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    25 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    25 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #2
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    On 5th March 2020, DWP published a Prior Information Notice 2020/S 046-109668, signalling its intent to re-procure the PIP Contracts in accordance with Section 7 of the PCR. Within days of this, the COVID-19 Pandemic hit the UK and significantly impacted DWP including delivery of health assessments and the planned procurement. The impact of COVID-19 meant the Department were unable to launch the procurement as planned. Extensions to the existing contracts are needed to fully understand and evaluate the impacts of COVID-19 ahead of future procurements as well as to stabilise the assessment service and resource. The impact of COVID-19 has been, and continues to be, very significant. The assessment service has had to be very quickly adapted, in particular to suspend face to face assessments and mobilise alternative methods of delivery to support claimants. Alongside this departmental and supplier staff and resources have had to be restructured and redeployed to help deliver DWP and the wider government's operational response to COVID-19. DWP has also consulted with the market on the impacts of COVID-19. Given that PIP is a critical statutory welfare benefit that caters for vulnerable people, a gap in service provision is not an option DWP therefore consider it necessary to extend the Contract for up to 2 years in order to (i) stabilise the assessment service (ii) ensure a continuous service for these complex and vitally important services, which support delivery of statutory welfare benefits to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable claimants each year and (iii) allow DWP to fully understand and evaluate the impacts of COVID-19 on the assessment services we require of the market ahead of future procurements. DWP will continue engaging with the market to discuss the future transition of the PIP assessment service and the future of health assessments more broadly. DWP will build in periodic reviews to understand the developing Covid impact and we will continue to review suitability of the 2 year extension.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    25 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 19 Jul 2012, 00:00 BST · £129,308,307
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Capita Business Services UK Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£129,308,307 · signed 19 Jul 2012, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department for Work and Pensions

Contracting authority GB-FTS-15219
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  • Department for Work and Pensions
    buyer

    Hartshead Square, Sheffield, UK, S1 2FD
    KATHRYN.TAYLOR@DWP.GOV.UK

  • Capita Business Services UK Ltd
    supplier

    02299747
    London, UK

  • Department for Work and Pensions
    mediationBody
    reviewBody

    Sheffield
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Planning and rationale
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Procedure rationaleAward of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below Regulation 72(1)(c) PCR: For the reasons set out in II.2.4 above, the provision of additional services over a period of two (2) years has become necessary (i) The need for modification has been brought about by circumstances which a 'diligent contracting authority' could not have foreseen. COVID 19 is a unique event whose impact could not have been foreseen; and (ii) The modification does not alter the overall nature of the contract; The services to be provided by the incumbent will remain consistent and there will be no alteration to the overall nature of the Contract, and (iii) The modification does not exceed 50% of the original contract value. The price to be paid for the extended period of the Contract does not exceed 50 % of the original value of the Contract (iv) DWP will publish a Modification Notice pursuant to Regulation 72(3) of PCR.