CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Provision of Homecare Services within the County Borough of Bridgend

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Bridgend County Borough Council would like to invite organisations to submit tenders for the delivery of domiciliary care services in the county borough. This procurement exercise forms part of the Council’s transformation agenda within Adult Social Care and involves the remodelling of internal homecare services. This is an exciting opportunity to work in partnership with the Council to deliver high quality care services across three geographical areas of the borough.

The Council’s vision for Adult Social Care is ‘To promote independence, wellbeing and choice that will support individuals in achieving their full potential in healthier communities.’ In order to achieve this vision, the Council is dedicated to providing quality responses that are sustainable and flexible in order to meet current and future needs and demands, by commissioning services from partners that share our vision and social care values.

The Council intends to award three lots of domiciliary care provision, with a total of 4,400 weekly hours. Each lot of care hours relates to the geographical coverage of the three locality networks. These hours include a specialist dementia support service, generalist Domiciliary Care, the ‘back to bed’ service and, for the Provider wishing to bid for the West geographical area, the night sitting service (which is to be delivered across the whole county borough).

The homecare service supports a range of people in the community to enable them to continue to live independently. The majority of these service users are older people, although the service delivers care to people with dementia, physical and/or sensory disabilities, learning disabilities and mental health support needs. The number of weekly hours to be delivered by each Lot is shown below:

Network Area Total Hours per Week

North 1,540

West 1,200 (including night sits)

East 1,660

The core requirements for this service are set out within the Service Specification and the Council would like to attract organisations who put service users at the heart of delivery, are flexible and responsive to changing needs, enable independence, dedicated to improving Services, committed to workforce development and are reactive, robust and responsible partners that make best use of available resources.

Organisations are welcome to bid for individual or multiple Lots, however no more than two geographical Lots will be awarded to one single bidder.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=7146.

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Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

A contract period of 5 years with an option to extend for up to a further 24 months

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

B396

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

To request a tender pack please email procurementteam@bridgend.gov.uk and state the contract number B396 and contract title - Provision of Homecare Services.

Potential tenderers are required to complete, in full, tender documentation and return no later than 12 noon Tuesday 6th May 2014.

Any tenders submitted after this time will not be accepted.

Please ensure you read and understand all the documentation sent and that all relevant documentation is returned.

Please note tenderers have the opportunity to bid for 3 separate lots within the tender pack. Only 1 Pre Qualification Questionnaire is required to be completed.

(WA Ref:7146)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice