Published date: 4 February 2022

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 14 February 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South East

Procurement reference

AS18936

Published date

4 February 2022

Closing date

14 February 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

Hampshire County Council are wanting to implement an Emergency Care Response (ECR) service, which is a short-term service to support adults social care settings experiencing short term staffing difficulties or failure across the Hampshire County Council (HCC) area, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ECR Service will allow the Council to access a pool of care staff during a period of time each week to address any immediate needs related to staff shortages, allowing the provider additional time in which to overcome their difficulties or seek alternative means of support.

We are gathering information from the market to find out how much interest there would be in providing this type of service. The questions within the questionnaire are being asked to help steer us in the direction that would be beneficial to the market.

To respond to the questionnaire please go to https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire/aspx/Home and search for AS18936 Emergency Care Response Service Market Engagement.

The questionnaire will be available to view from 04/02/2022 to 14/02/2022 9am.

Please note this is a market engagement exercise there is no guarantee the Council will choose to tender following this.


About the buyer

Contact name

Alix Holmes

Address

The Castle
WINCHESTER
SO23 8UJ
England

Email

alix.holmes@hants.gov.uk