Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Stockton on Tees Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Policy in Practice SME
- Value
- £112,500
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Information systems and servers (CPV 48800000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jun 2026
- Published10 Jun 2026Published 9 days after the contract date
Description
The UK Government is launching the new Crisis and Resilience Fund on 1 April 2026, running until 31 March 2029, providing multiyear grant funding for local authorities across England. The CRF replaces the Household Support Fund (HSF) and Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP), establishing a single, long-term framework for local crisis support. The CRF has 3 main outcomes: - Provide effective crisis support to people on low incomes experiencing financial shocks. - Improve individual and community financial resilience, using an outcomes-based approach, and reducing the need for repeat crisis support. - Improve and integrate the wider local support front door system by mapping the local landscape, enabling more preventative and holistic assistance, and using digital solutions where appropriate. Authorities must allocate the CRF funding across the following four policy strands: - Crisis Payment: Providing support to those in crisis. - Housing Payment: Providing financial support towards ho…
About the supplier
Policy in Practice: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07042993).