Closed tender

Debt Advice Service

Details

Buyer: London Borough of Brent
Value: £500,000
Topic: Other community, social and personal services
Published: 9 July 2024
Submission: 5 August 2024
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Brent Council is carrying out a procurement exercise to procure a Service Provider to continue the delivery of a Debt Advice Service for Brent residents. Background Since late 2021, the UK has experienced a rise in the costs of living for individuals and businesses. For many Brent residents, this means having to make difficult decisions on how they spend their income, which can have a negative impact on their standards of living and wellbeing. In 2022, Brent Council launched a Cost-of-Living themed Outcomes Based Review (OBR) aimed at developing tailored solutions to best support residents impacted by the ongoing Cost-of-Living crisis. A key project to emerge from this work was a specialist Debt and Advice service. Since early 2023, a Debt Advice Service has been piloted, located across Brent Council's existing network of Brent Hubs across the borough. The aim of the service is to provide residents with personal debt with dedicated debt advice, income maximisation reviews and ability to issue debt relief offers.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published9 July 2024
Current notice
Completed: Submission date5 August 2024

About the buyer

Brent Council is a London borough council and local authority, running procurement through its own in-house corporate Procurement team. Lower-value contracts are generally sourced and managed directly by individual service departments across the council. Larger, higher-value contracts are instead led by the corporate Procurement team. A dedicated local supplier database lists smaller-value opportunities specifically for businesses based in the borough.

Over the past 5 years, most of London Borough of Brent's contract awards have been in health and social work, business services and construction work.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@london-borough-of-brent.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@london-borough-of-brent.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@london-borough-of-brent.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@london-borough-of-brent.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@london-borough-of-brent.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@london-borough-of-brent.gov