Published date: 4 March 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: 23 March 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

RG1 2LU

Value of contract

£30,000 to £50,000

Procurement reference

RBC 00000734

Published date

4 March 2020

Closing date

23 March 2020

Contract start date

4 May 2020

Contract end date

2 November 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Reading Borough Council is looking to work with a suitable provider to refresh (and in some cases write) the Council's Directorate of Adult Social Care & Health (DASCH) policies and staff practice guides. The aim is to ensure that they are clear, informative and accessible whilst setting clear expectations of working practices for adult social care staff at all levels from senior managers to operational and business support staff.

The Council wishes to gain the potential interest of experienced providers to deliver a refreshed suite of policies and staff practice guides for Adult Social Care & Health staff. The scope of the work is to review and develop the following:

o Policies
Overarching policies (documents that provide staff with the framework to meet statutory and legal requirements. E.g. Safeguarding, Finance and Moving & Handling) and
o Practice Guides
Practice guidelines (guidance that is sometimes called protocols / guides / frameworks / templates / forms or checklists). They cover work undertaken by certain staff or teams. Often it is the 'translation' of a policy or procedure into local language and within local workflows.

More information

Links

Additional text

This is an early engagement exercise as part of the development of a planned procurement. Organisations interested in responding to the consultation should download the documents which are available on the Council`s e-tendering system at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc/aspx/Home and complete as instructed.

The Portal is free of charge - to register please follow the supplier registration guidance which is available on the Portal.

Please note: you must register your interest via the Council`s e-tendering portal if you intend to submit a response. Interested parties must log onto the Council`s e-tendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc, to express an interest and download the procurement documents. All communications regarding this procurement exercise will be conducted through the Council`s e-tendering portal including requests for clarifications or general enquiries. The procurement documents will be available for download up until the closing time and date for tender submissions, it is the organisation`s responsibility to ensure that they download the documents in ample time to ensure that they can be completed and returned electronically, along with supporting documents, prior to the closing time and date stipulated. Before completing the tender, potential providers/suppliers should ensure that the e-mail address that has been used to register their organisation will be checked regularly as the Council`s e-tendering system will generate automatic notifications to this e-mail address when there are updates, changes or messages sent relating to the project. Potential bidders should also check that their organisation`s details are correct and kept up to date.

Technical questions and assistance regarding the use and operation of the Portal should be addressed to the In-Tend Help Desk - e-mail: support@in-tend.co.uk, telephone number +44 8442728810.


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

John Littlefair

Address

Bridge Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 2LU
United Kingdom

Telephone

0118 9372568

Email

john.littlefair@reading.gov.uk