Published date: 26 February 2024

Last edited date: 22 May 2024

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 31 May 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£200,000,000 to £232,104,000

Procurement reference

CORNWALL001-DN660169-83540270

Published date

26 February 2024

Closing date

31 May 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

28 September 2024

Contract end date

27 September 2032

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

Cornwall Council is seeking to procure the provision of Home Care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly for a maximum term of 8 years.

Home Care is the provision of CQC regulated and non-regulated activities that enable a Person to live independently at home.

The Services will address the needs of older people and people with physical disabilities who require assistance with their personal care, daily living activities, accessing the community and any other practical tasks that meet their assessed needs and outcomes.

They may also be used by people with learning disabilities, autism, mental health support needs, sensory loss and other conditions where this type of provision best meets their individual needs.

Service providers will be asked to work together as a placed based alliance and will be directly responsible for the delivery of Home Care services which include:

a) Regulated 'personal care' tasks including getting in and out of bed, washing and dressing, going to the toilet and taking medication.
b) Non-regulated tasks including shopping, cleaning, going out into the community and other activities that enable the Person to meet their assessed social care needs, usually in exceptional circumstances.
c) Night-time care, which may be used to meet the Person's needs in exceptional circumstances to prevent use of a residential care placements.
d) Clustering of home care services in specific locations, for example in a sheltered housing scheme, to enhance the offer available to people living in these settings and to optimise the available capacity;
e) Alliance Providers working collaboratively in each Geographical Zone to optimise service delivery and support each other with market fragility including prevention and management of local provider failure and
f) Other support set out in the Person's Care and Support Plan that the Person requires to meet their needs, outcomes and preferences.

This advert is replacing the previously published PIN 2023/S 000-008521, published on 23rd March 2023 as Care and Support at Home in Cornwall. The current Home Care and Supportive Lifestyles contract commenced in 2018 and has now been extended until 30th September 2024.

Bidders must be registered on the ProContract portal https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk to access the tender documents.

Registration on ProContract is free.

All bids must be received electronically via the ProContract portal by the closing date stated in the Invitation to Tender.


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Home Care Services

  • Opportunity
  • Published 26 February 2024, last edited 4 April 2024

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About the buyer

Contact name

Celia Penhaligon

Address

County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
England

Telephone

+44 1872 322222

Email

celia.penhaligon@cornwall.gov.uk

Website

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk