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

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Dear City of London Corporation,

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

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

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Dear Peter Briggs

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 19 April 2021 and our
acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:

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.  The CoL may consider a e-purchasing model as one option in our
upcoming tender for Homecare.

 

 b. via which procurement route, and Currently via an Open tender model.

 

 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? 
The CoL are commencing a procurement for Domiciliary Care and
Reablement services in the City.
Contact details:
Email: [1][email address]
Phone: 0207 606 3030

 

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, via which procurement
route, and There are no plans at present.

 

 b. 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? N/A

 

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 9,720* which includes approximately 1,770 children aged up to 19
years old.

*Office of National Statistics 2020

 

We hope that this response is of assistance.

 

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