Published date: 22 June 2015

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 10 November 2014

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£838,187

Procurement reference

Project_320

Published date

22 June 2015

Closing date

10 November 2014

Contract start date

1 September 2015

Contract end date

31 August 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

NHS Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group is working closely with Walsall Council to improve the timely diagnosis and services for people with dementia. NHS Walsall CCG is seeking expressions of interest from suitably knowledgeable and qualified organisations able to evidence the necessary experience, skills and ability to provide the following service:

Six Personal Assistants - Dementia (PADs), to support people soon after a diagnosis of dementia, together with support for their family who may or may not be carers, for a period of up to three months from diagnosis. This service will receive referrals
from and work very closely with Walsall Memory Assessment Service and Walsall learning disability services.

The PADs will provide support, information, practical assistance in the home and signpost to other forms of long-term support. This service forms part of Walsall's implementation of the dementia strategy. Organisations interested in expressing an interest should first consider the essential requirements listed below:

•Experience in the provision of delivering specialised services to people with dementia and their carers
•Staff qualified, skilled and competent to work with people with dementia and their carers
•Evidence of suitable adult/child protection, safeguarding policies and procedures
•Ability to provide monitoring data on a quarterly basis

Expressions of interest from the Voluntary and Community Sector are encouraged.
The contract will be for a period of 3 years, with the possibility of extension for a
further 2 periods of 12 months.

As future numbers of referrals are difficult to predict, NHS Walsall reserves the
right to decrease or increase the number of PADs required during the lifetime of the
contract. Spend is circa £183,000 per annum with a total Contract value of circa
£915,000. Figures provided are estimates only and should not be taken as a guarantee
of activity.


More information

Additional text

The contract will be for a period of 3 years, with the possibility of extension for a
further 2 periods of 12 months.
Please note that the OJEU Notice (OJEU ref: 2015/S 117-212031) supercedes all other notices including this one. Please see the link for the OJEU Notice below:
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:212031-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0#


Award information

Awarded date

9 June 2015

Contract start date

1 September 2015

Contract end date

31 August 2020

Total value of contract

£838,187

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Accord Housing Group

Address

178 Birmingham Road
West Bromwich
UK
B70 6QC

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Phil Carter

Address

Walsall CCG
Walsall
WS2 7JL
England

Email

philip.carter@walsall.nhs.uk