Staffordshire Home Care including Carers Home Based Respite Services
Staffordshire County Council
Published date: 20 January 2021
Open opportunity – This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.
Contract summary
Industry
- Health and social work services – 85000000
Location of contract
West Midlands
Value of contract
£163,200,000 to £506,000,000
Procurement reference
IA2063
Published date
20 January 2021
Closing date
05 March 2021
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 September 2021
Contract end date
31 August 2028
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (OJEU)What is an open procedure (OJEU)?
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The Council are commissioning Care in the home services including a Carers home and community respite service across Staffordshire for Carers who have been assessed as having support needs.
Respite Care and support enables Carers to take a break from their caring role and evidence suggests that this can help to achieve positive health, wellbeing and quality of life outcomes for Carers. Fewer Carers experienced mental health problems if they had taken a break since beginning their caring role.
The purpose of Care in the home and Carers home and community respite Services are to enable Service Users to remain in their own homes, living as independently as possible and to achieve and maintain their autonomy, independence, personal identity and assessed outcomes.
This Procurement is a ‘flexible Platform Agreement’ which will be commissioned under the Light Touch Regime (implemented through Regulations 74-77 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015). The Platform Agreement duration will be flexible and will be in place for a minimum of no less than 4 years from 1st September 2021 – 31st August 2025 with the option to extend by 3 x 12 months to 31st August 2028. No later than 1st September 2024, the Council will review its intentions for any future extension to the Platform Agreement and will notify Suppliers of any future extension period of the Platform Agreement.
Any further future extensions will be notified to the Suppliers no less than 6 months prior to the expiry of any future extension period. Should the Platform Agreement be extended following the minimum Platform Agreement period and should the total estimated Platform Agreement value range be exceeded then the documentation will be updated in line with Public Contract Regulations 2015.
Tender documentation and full details of lotting breakdown can be obtained from fhttps://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
How to apply
Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.
About the buyer
Contact name
Claire Teece
Address
Tipping Street
STAFFORD
ST162DH
England
Telephone
01785854657
commercial.team@staffordshire.gov.uk
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