Published date: 17 February 2023

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 27 March 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Project management consultancy services - 72224000

  • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

Location of contract

PO19 1RG

Value of contract

£3,500,000 to £4,000,000

Procurement reference

WSCC - JS - Adult Social Care Delivery Partner - Prior Information Notice

Published date

17 February 2023

Approach to market date

27 March 2023

Contract start date

3 July 2023

Contract end date

2 July 2025

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The requirement
To help meet the resourcing requirements for the Adult Social Care Improvement Programme, West Sussex County Council is looking for support from a single Delivery Partner to provide services between July 2023 - June 2025.

The Delivery Partner will provide a flexible, efficient, multi-skilled resourcing solution, that is able to respond to evolving requirements throughout the term of the contract.

The resource mix is likely to cover skills-sets such as
• Programme Management (Directive PMO)
• Business change (Process design)
• Commissioning (Adult Social Care)
• Strategy and policy (Social care reform and impact + ongoing delivery of the 'Life you want to lead strategy')
• Section 75 (Mental health and learning disabilities)
• Business analysts

The WSCC Adult Social Care Strategy is available here: https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/publications-policies-and-reports/social-care-and-health-policy-and-reports/adult-social-care-strategy/

The requirements are described further in the market sounding exercise document attached below

Timescales
The Council intends to publish the tender in late March 2023.
The contact needs to be in place and operational by 03 July 2023.

Next steps

Market sounding exercise

The Council is publishing a market sounding exercise alongside this Notice to gain some insight into market capability and capacity (see below)

Responses to these questions will help to finalise the specification and service requirements. You are kindly asked to review and respond no later than 12:00 on 06 March 2023.

Completed documents can be uploaded on the SE Shared Services e-sourcing portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/ProjectManage/35941 under project reference WSCC - 035941. You will need to login to upload the document.

Market Briefing event

The Council will hold a market briefing session on 07 March 2023 (10.30 - 11.30) via MS Teams. Members of the ASC leadership team will provide an overview of the requirement and context.

Please let us know if you are interested in attending the event by emailing james.skilling@westsussex.gov.uk (or uploading your market sounding exercise document to the e-sourcing portal) with the subject title WSCC ASC Delivery Partner Market Briefing.

More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2023/2024 £1,500,000
2024/2025 £2,000,000
2025/2026 £500,000

Attachments

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

James Skilling

Address

County Hall,West Street
CHICHESTER
PO191RQ
England

Telephone

0330 222 5432

Email

james.skilling@westsussex.gov.uk