Awarded contract

DN703083 - The Service Provision of Food and Fuel Support

Details

Supplier(s)
The Bridge
Value
£150,000
Duration
3 years
Topic
Miscellaneous services
Published
19 February 2024

Tender description

The Signposting and Community Support Service (SCSS) provides emergency short-term food and fuel support to people in hardship and crisis. The Service also delivers services focused on debt and money management advice that contribute to longer-term preventative support. The Service has been developed over the past three financial years to reduce costs and increase efficiency by supporting people, via frontline social care, family support or housing workers, in an immediate and targeted manner. The reasons for people needing support include benefits sanctions and delayed payments, budgetary and debt problems, homelessness, crime and domestic abuse. This contract is to provide the emergency food and fuel element of the Service for Leicestershire from April 2024 onwards.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published19 February 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 April 2024
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 5 months

About the buyer

Leicestershire County Council buys as a local authority. Some contracts also run through frameworks set up by outside bodies, including ESPO, and suppliers apply to join those directly. The council itself trades nationally as ESPO, running framework agreements for public bodies nationwide. A two-year procurement plan on the council's open data site lists contracts still to come.

Over the past 5 years, most of Leicestershire County Council's contract awards have been in transport services, construction work and architectural and engineering services.

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