The Authority require a supplier who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) or the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to provide a service to support their existing cards provider to deliver the healthy start scheme payments providing chip and pin, contactless enabled prepaid, top up, cards to beneficiaries on behalf of the Authority’s sponsor the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The Authority are digitising the healthy start scheme and are due to start private beta in April 2020, with the target of pre-paid cards being issued to beneficiaries from October 2020.

The supplier will be expected to work with the Authority's card provider.

The Authority intends to novate the contract following award to Xerox UK Ltd the current card provider.