Procurement status and plans for eBrokerage, and/or Visit Charge Processing solutions in 2021 through 2022

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Dear Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

Under FOI please provide the following information relating to how the Council brokers and pays providers for the adult social care packages it commissions:

Regarding care brokerage:

1. Does the Council have any plans to a) procure an eBrokerage cloud software solution (for brokering commissioned care packages across its care providers, primarily but not restricted to only domiciliary care) in 2021/2022, and if so when, b) via which procurement route, and c) provide the contact name for the relevant procurement lead / the name of the department leading the procurement within the Council, as well as an indication if, and when / how the Council intends to contact or is willing to engage with the market, plus if the Council would be interested in receiving information in this regard?

And regarding visit charge processing for paying commissioned care providers against the services they have delivered on behalf of the Council:

2. Does the Council have any plans to a) procure a Provider Payment/Council Self-billing cloud software solution (for processing and calculating visit data submitted by commissioned care providers for the visits they have undertaken on behalf of the Council, primarily but not restricted to only domiciliary care) in 2021/2022, and if so when, b) via which procurement route, and c) provide the contact name for the relevant procurement lead / the name of the department leading the procurement within the Council, as well as an indication if and when / how the Council intends to contact or is willing to engage with the market, plus if the Council would be interested in receiving information in this regard?

Many thanks.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Briggs

The Governance Team, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

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Reference: FOI-328099797
Date of request: 21/04/2021
Title of request: Procurement status and plans for eBrokerage, and/or
Visit Charge Processing solutions in 2021 through 2022

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Reference: FOI-328099797
Date of request: 21/04/2021
Title of request: Procurement status and plans for eBrokerage, and/or
Visit Charge Processing solutions in 2021 through 2022

Dear Peter Briggs,

Freedom of Information request – FOI-328099797

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 21 April 2021 in
which you asked:

 

“Under FOI please provide the following information relating to how the
Council brokers and pays providers for the adult social care packages it
commissions:

 

Regarding care brokerage:

 

1. Does the Council have any plans to a) procure an eBrokerage cloud
software solution (for brokering commissioned care packages across its
care providers, primarily but not restricted to only domiciliary care) in
2021/2022, and if so when, b) via which procurement route, and c) provide
the contact name for the relevant procurement lead / the name of the
department leading the procurement within the Council, as well as an
indication if, and when / how the Council intends to contact or is willing
to engage with the market, plus if the Council would be interested in
receiving information in this regard?

 

And regarding visit charge processing for paying commissioned care
providers against the services they have delivered on behalf of the
Council:

 

2. Does the Council have any plans to a) procure a Provider
Payment/Council Self-billing cloud software solution (for processing and
calculating visit data submitted by commissioned care providers for the
visits they have undertaken on behalf of the Council, primarily but not
restricted to only domiciliary care) in 2021/2022, and if so when, b) via
which procurement route, and c) provide the contact name for the relevant
procurement lead / the name of the department leading the procurement
within the Council, as well as an indication if and when / how the Council
intends to contact or is willing to engage with the market, plus if the
Council would be interested in receiving information in this regard?”

 

 

Having considered your request, we provide the following returns:

 

There are no plans in place to:

 

1a)    procure an eBrokerage cloud software solution (for brokering
commissioned care packages across its care providers, primarily but not
restricted to only domiciliary care) in 2021/2022

 

2a)    procure a Provider Payment/Council Self-billing cloud software
solution (for processing and calculating visit data submitted by
commissioned care providers for the visits they have undertaken on behalf
of the Council, primarily but not restricted to only domiciliary care) in
2021/2022,

Therefore, we do not hold the information requested.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Adults Social Care Systems

 

Kind regards
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