This Government's procurement policy is to award contracts on the basis of value for money, which means the optimum combination of cost and quality over the lifetime of the project.<\/p>
The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 requires commissioners to consider the economic, environmental and social benefits of their approaches to procurement before the process starts, at the pre-procurement stage.<\/p>
Wider socio-economic criteria can be taken into account at tender evaluation stage if they relate directly to the subject matter of a contract from the point of view of the contracting authority.<\/p>
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Please see the table below showing the percentage of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) new claims, for Normal Rules (NR), that took longer than 40 days to process. Claims not yet processed within 40 days, include cases where we are awaiting additional information from the claimant and/or medical evidence.<\/p>
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<\/p><\/td> | 2012/13<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Volume of Claims Cleared<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 402,861<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Volume of claims cleared after 40 working days <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 89,678<\/p><\/td><\/tr> % of <\/strong>DLA<\/strong> New Claims (NR) 22.3%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Prior to 2012/13 the measure reported against was an Actual Average Clearance Time (AACT). This is the cumulative clearance days divided by the number of cleared events within the reporting period.<\/p> <\/p> Please see the table below for 2010/11 and 2011/12: <\/p> <\/p> <\/p><\/td> 2010/11<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2011/12<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Volume of Claims Cleared<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 431,572<\/p><\/td> 412,556<\/p><\/td><\/tr> AACT (Level 37.7 days)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 30.3<\/p><\/td> 27.2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> Notes:<\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p> The reported figure only relates to DLA (NR) new claims. NR claims are those where the claimant is not terminally ill and the normal rules of entitlement therefore apply. <\/p> <\/p> The figures above cover the period from 1st April to 31st March and shows the national position including working age and child claimants.<\/p> <\/p> The AACT level (37.7 days) shown in the above table is a measure based on a prior year's performance.<\/p> <\/p> We have not provided data for 2013/14 due to not having a full financial year available at this time. <\/p> <\/p> Source:<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> Source: Department for Work and Pensions \u2013 RDA 80123 report - DLA Management Information Statistics<\/p> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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