Official UK procurement notice
Direct Payments Advice and Guidance Service
Authority: Somerset Council (Local council)
If you are interested in this potential opportunity, then please express an interest by responding to the requirements set out below by Friday 24th October 2025 at 16:00. Please send responses to stephen.barker@somerset.gov.uk
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIf you are interested in this potential opportunity, then please express an interest by responding to the requirements set out below by Friday 24th October 2025 at 16:00. Please send responses to stephen.barker@somerset.gov.uk
Somerset Council is looking to assess market interest in the following Direct Payment (DP) services:
- Advice and guidance
- Scheme set up
- Payroll service
- Holding accounts (also known as managed accounts)
- DP plus (extra support)
- Personal Health Budget (PHB) Support
Interested organisations must be able to meet the following requirements:
- Provide advice and guidance Monday to Friday (9:00 till 17:00) via telephone, postal, support or face to face if necessary.
- Capacity and staffing to provide advice and guidance for 2,300 people.
- Capacity and staffing to provide a payroll service for 600 people.
- Capacity and staffing to provide a holding account for 800 people.
- Capacity and staffing to provide DP plus (extra support) for 50 people.
- Capacity and staffing to support setting up Personal Health Budgets for approximately 30 people at year.
The above quoted figures are subject to change.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Oct 2025, 10:59 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Oct 2025, 10:59 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-063184- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05aa4aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Oct 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published389 days ago8 Oct 2025, 10:59 BST
- Market engagement372 days ago24 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
Please respond to the following taking into account the information provided above: -
Would you be interested in bidding for a potential tender for this Service in Somerset? Yes/ No
Please set out the estimated cost per annum for each of the following service areas:
Advice and guidance
Payroll Service
Holding Accounts
DP Plus
Personal Health Budgets
Please also set out any additional information on Service Delivery for each service area that you feel would be useful in supporting your estimated costs.
- Contract starts214 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Oct 2025, 10:59 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender