Pre paid debit card procurement and contracts
Case reference FOI2022/00328
Published 27 April 2022
Request
Please kindly send to me all recorded information that the local authority holds regarding its outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards in the financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 and its current and planned outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards in 2022/23 and future financial years. Such information should include all recorded information regarding: -
(a) the local authority's outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards for the use by staff, volunteers, council tax payers service users;
(b) the ways in which the local authority uses pre-paid debit cards;
(c) the full name(s) of any outsourced service provider(s) supplying the local authority;
(d) the contract(s) with any outsourced service provider(s) supplying the local authority;
(e) the date(s) on which contract(s) with outsourced service provider(s) expire;
(f) the total fees paid by the local authority, or budgeted to be paid, by supplier, for each of the financial years requested above;
(g) the number of pre-paid debit card users the local authority had, or anticipates having, for each of the financial years listed above;
(h) the tendering process, or other procurement method, under which the outsourced contract(s) were awarded;
(i) the tendering process, or other procurement method, under which the service will be re-contracted; and
(j) the date on which the process referred to in (h), for the re-contracting of the outsourced service, will commence.
(k) the name and email address of the person within the local authority who has responsibility for the authority's management and provision of pre-paid debit cards.
Response
(a)
Contract ID 000937 Pre-Paid Card Services for direct payment clients
Contract ID 102301 Love going out locally - Pre-paid cards
(b)
ID 000937 - Adult services direct payment clients
ID 102301 - Provision of payment card services (systems and card production) to support the roll out of the shop local project
(c)
ID 000937 - Prepaid Financial Services Ltd.
ID 102301 - Allpay Ltd
(d)
ID 000937 - Currently one with this provider
ID 102301 - This contract has just expired
(e)
ID 000937 - 31/07/2023
ID 102301 - 31/03/2022
(f)
ID 000937 - Estimated contract value £132,000.00. The estimated annual value is £25,000.00.
ID 102301 - Estimated contract value £150,000.00. Please note that this is the whole contract value; the contract started 18/10/2021 and ended 31/03/2022.
(g) ID 000937 - Within the contract which is for 5 years (commenced 01/08/2018) and covers years requested (2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23), up to 1,000 cardholders.
ID 102301 - 2020/21: 0 users; 2021/22: 59,960 users; 2022/23: 0 users
(h)
ID 000937 - Open tender run through the council's e-Tendering portal, Procontract
ID 102301 - Existing framework - CCS Framework RM3828 - Payment Solutions Lot 2 Pre-paid cards
(i)
ID 000937 - Not known at this stage
ID 102301 - Unlikely as the Government grant available to offer this service has now ended
(j)
ID 000937 - Not known at this stage
ID 102301 - N/A. Please see above response (i)
(k)
ID 000937 - Name: Herefordshire Council, Direct Payment officers
Email: directpaymentadvice@herefordshire.gov.uk
ID 102301 - Name: Nick Webster
Email address: nick.webster@herefordshire.gov.uk
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