Published date: 1 August 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: 30 August 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Provision of services to the community - 75200000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£100,000 to £500,000

Procurement reference

BIP879906446

Published date

1 August 2024

Closing date

30 August 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 October 2024

Contract end date

30 September 2028

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Shropshire Council wishes to procure statutory Advocacy and DoLS Personal Representative services for Adults.

BACKGROUND
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) places a duty on local authorities to ensure that every person who is deprived of their liberty by the DoLS has to have a Representative. In many cases this is a family member. Where there is no one available to carry out this role the Council must appoint someone. This applies to a wide variety of Service Users (18+) who are being accommodated in hospital or care home in order to receive care or treatment, where the Relevant Person is unable to make this decision for themselves due to an impairment or disturbance in the functioning of their mind or brain.

The Care Act (2014) places a duty on local authorities to provide access to independent non- instructed advocacy to those people who do not have appropriate or available representation and have substantial difficulty in being fully involved in their care assessment care & support planning, review and safeguarding processes.
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) places a duty on local authorities to provide access to a specialist independent non-instructed advocacy service for a wide variety of Service Users (16+) who are found to be lacking mental capacity due to an impairment or disturbance in the functioning of their mind or brain and does not have appropriate or available representation.
The council intends to re-tender the services above in 2 lots as follows:

Lot 1 - Volunteer relevant person service under DoLS (VRPR)

Lot 2- Care Act Advocacy, Independent Mental Capacity Advocate service (IMCA), Paid Relevant Persons Representative under DoLS (RPR)

Bidders can submit tenders for any or both Lots and can be awarded either one or both Lots if successful.

The maximum annual budget available for each Lot is as follows:

Lot 1 £15,450 per annum
Lot 2 £62,250 per annum
The contract(s) will commence on 1st October 2024 and will run for a period of 4 years with an option to extend by up to a further 3 x 12-month periods.

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Additional text

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Team

Address

Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
SY2 6ND
UK

Telephone

+441743252992

Email

procurement@shropshire.gov.uk