Decision details

Approval to extend the contract for a prepaid cards service to be used by clients receiving services arranged or managed by Adults & Health and Family Services

Decision Maker: Executive Director of Adults and Health

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

This report provides approval for the extension of the prepaid cards contract with Prepaid Financial Services Ltd (PFS) to provide prepaid cards to the Council following a successful 3-month pilot.

The Council will use PFS (Prepaid Financial Services) to provide prepaid cards to enable payments for five services, as set out in the previous DPR to procure, for a total of around two thousand clients. Other services, including Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), have expressed an interest in using prepaid cards. 

The extension of this contract is needed to realise the benefits listed in the previous DPR (Procurement of a prepaid card service for clients receiving services arranged or managed by Adults & Health and Children’s & Family Services).

Publication date: 27/02/2020

Date of decision: 20/02/2020

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