Issue 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
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).
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 27/02/2020
Decision due: 20 Feb 2020 by Executive Director of Adults and Health
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