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title: "Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT)"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000714764"
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source: "Public Contracts Scotland"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "FALKIRK COUNCIL"
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# Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT)

Buyer: FALKIRK COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000714764

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## Summary

The Falkirk Council has recently completed the procurement process for the Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT) project. The project involves the provision of a policy dashboard tool that utilises analytics to support strategic decisions in welfare and housing services. The tender was awarded to Policy in Practice, a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME). The contract value is £58,000 GBP, and it was signed on 18th November 2022. The procurement method used was an open procedure. The Falkirk Council, based in Falkirk, UK, was the buying organization for this service procurement in the "services" category.

This procurement opportunity for the Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT) project can benefit businesses that specialise in providing data analytics solutions for local authority services. Companies with expertise in welfare and housing data analysis and software development are well-suited to compete for such tenders. The award of the contract to an SME indicates opportunities for smaller businesses to engage in public procurement processes. The project aims to improve the provision of welfare services through data-driven decision-making, offering a growth opportunity for businesses in the service analytics sector.

## Notice

The policy dashboard is an online interactive tool that combines our analytics engine with local authority data to drive strategic and operational decisions in the provision of a range of services, starting with welfare and housing, but capable of working with additional data sets.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT) dashboard is an online tool that combines analytics with local authority data to drive strategic and operational decisions in the provision of a range of welfare and support services. The solution enables the ability to: - understand the cumulative impact of welfare reform on each low-income household. - track the changing circumstances of low-income households to check the effectiveness of interventions, policy changes and socio-economic factors. - understand variations of income relative to household's needs and identify struggling, just managing, and in crisis households based a combination of household's incomes, expenditure and arrears. - identify households that are in poverty with respect to national relative and absolute poverty lines and identify eligibility for benefits. - bring together disparate datasets to have a single view of low-income households which includes; debt, financial resilience, affordability and vulnerability.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV465261 |
| Notice type | PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Nov 2022 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 18 Nov 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £58,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | FALKIRK COUNCIL |
| Locality | FALKIRK |
| Post town | Falkirk and Stirling |
| Postcode | FK2 7YZ |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM12 Falkirk |
| Local authority | Falkirk |
| Electoral ward | Falkirk North |
| Westminster constituency | Falkirk |
| Delivery location | TLM76 Falkirk |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | POLICY IN PRACTICE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 79412000 - Financial management consultancy services

## Release History

- 25 Nov 2022 at 00:00 - Award - PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV465261

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV465261
  Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT) - The policy dashboard is an online interactive tool that combines our analytics engine with local authority data to drive strategic and operational decisions in the provision of a range of services, starting with welfare and housing, but capable of working with additional data sets.

## Notice URLs

- http://
- http://www.falkirk.gov.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000714764

## Provenance

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