FEW1510 - Provision of Adults Social Care Services For Best Interests Assessors Service
What the buyer wrote
This is a below threshold direct award under the Light Touch Regime, on the basis of Schedule 5 (7), continuity of service whilst an existing procurement is concluding. The Best Interest Assessors (BIA) service is a required statutory function under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. It is therefore unavoidable for the local authority not to provide this service. The service assists the Council to deliver their statutory responsibilities, as outlined in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and subsequent Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, to ensure that where a decision to deprive someone of their liberty is required it is made lawfully and based on relevant best practice, guidance and case law…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- FEW1510 - Provision of Adults Social Care Services For Best Interests Assessors Service
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Work starts
- 1 Dec 2025
- Work ends
- 1 Dec 2025
- Where
- in the East Midlands
Who the buyer named
Andy Button was the named contact on this notice.