payroll management services
his procurement covers three main service areas which can be tendered for in total or individually or jointly. The intention is to award contracts for a minimum of 7 years, and potentially up to 10 years.
Revenues and benefits service - This covers the billing, collection and recovery of council tax and business rates, together with the administration of housing and council tax benefits. The only areas to remain in house will be fraud prevention and detection and those functions where contracting out is not permitted by legislation. The service has been outsourced since 1997 and is currently run using Academy software, with the back office activities carried out off site.
Finance - This will cover the finance and the payroll systems (currently IBS Integra and Midland HR Delphi respectively) together with transactional finance activities and Procurement (debtors, creditors, payroll, cash book category management and general procurement advice). The services with the exception of the administration of the systems and procurement, are currently carried out in-house. The council would also like to consider bids which include the management and statutory accounting services.
