Published date: 9 April 2020

Last edited date: 9 April 2020

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 September 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

  • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£2,472,660

Procurement reference

LEICSCITY02-DN451421-34597892

Published date

9 April 2020

Closing date

30 September 2020

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2026

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

Leicester City Council (on behalf of Leicester City Council, Leicestershire County Council, Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group, East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and West Leicestershire CCG) invites Tenders for the provision of a Dementia Support Service to assist people living with dementia and their families/informal carers in Leicester and Leicestershire.

The service provider must be flexible and proactive in delivering personalised, strengths-based community support, relevant to people's circumstances and the stage of their condition.

The support delivered by the service will fall under one or more of the following categories:-

• Information, advice and signposting to other services.
• Personalised Targeted Support.
• Post Diagnostic Group and Social Group Support.
• Informal Carer Learning.

The service provider will be expected to respond to the diverse nature of the various communities across Leicester and Leicestershire by building effective relations with relevant health related statutory organisations (eg Primary Care Networks, Social Prescribers, Admiral Nurses, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Leicestershire Partnerships NHS Trust.

The proposed contract will be initially for a period of 3 years to commence on 1st April 2021 and expiring on 31st March 2024 with an option to extend (subject to satisfactory performance outcomes and agreement by the partners) for a further period or periods up to 24 months, taking the contract term to a maximum of 60 months

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

ASC0259 - Dementia Support Service

  • Opportunity
  • Published 19 March 2020, last edited 19 March 2020

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Ashok Chotalia

Address

City Hall
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
England

Telephone

+44 1164542383

Email

procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk

Website

http://www.leicester.gov.uk