Contract for the Provision of Resilience Support to the Revenues and Benefits Service of Oxford City

Descriptions

Oxford City Council ("the Council") is re-tendered its contract for off-site Housing benefit and Council tax reduction and off-site Council tax processing. The contract is used on a permanent basis to provide resilience to the Revenues and Benefits service, mostly at times of peak demand.Any volumes of work detailed in the ITT are based on historic figures and the Council cannot guarantee any level of business.The Council anticipate 18 000 Council tax changes annually (mostly discounts/exemptions and change of address) with most resilience needed September to December. For Benefits there could be up to 6 000 change of circumstances (majority) and new claims needed through the year, peak times are August to December, plus the first 2 months of the financial year.The opportunity was advertised on the South east Portal and has now been awarded.