Care home services and care home redevelopment opportunities in Cornwall PQQ

Cornwall Council is working to ensure that the available care home capacity meets the current and future demand for services. To date care homes have not been developed at the pace required to meet the increasing needs of the Cornish population both now and into the future and there is a significant gap emerging between need and the availability of supply, particularly for people living with dementia.
One of a number of approaches the Council is taking to address this gap relates to the following two Sites located in Cornwall:
1. Trefula Nursing Home, St Day, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5ET, and
2. Trengrouse, Trengrouse Way, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 8BA.
The Council therefore wish to procure one (1) Service Provider and award them a Contract that will require the Service Provider to:
1) Purchase the freehold interest in the two (2) Sites with a restriction for the Service Provider to build and operate a care home on each Site. Any disposal of the Council’s freehold interests in the Sites shall as a minimum:
a) Be based on a conditional contract or option to be taken up at the point that full planning is achieved for the redevelopment of the Site(s), and
b) Be at the Council’s valuation (restricted to care home use) for each Site(s), or where the sale of the Site(s) is at an undervalue and therefore with a reduced or no capital receipts on disposal there must be a contractually binding agreement which can demonstrate a sum equal to or in excess of the level of undervalue being received by the Council across the Council Contract.

2) Undertake the operational management of the existing nursing care home at Site 1 to provide care services and dedicate access to a number of guaranteed beds for Council placements that must be priced either below or within the Council’s fee methodology while the Service Provider redevelops Site 1,

3) Secure funding, to enable the Service Provider to design, obtain planning permission, redevelop and construct a scheme on each of the two (2) Sites. As a minimum each scheme must include a new build care home to provide accommodation that meets the Council’s design principles for new build care homes, good practice for dementia friendly environments and any relevant CQC and legislative requirements. In addition to providing a new build care home on each of the two (2) Sites, the Service Provider will also be required to gain the best possible use of the wider Sites, and

4) Following completion of the schemes, the Service Provider will own and undertake the operational management of the scheme and provide care services at the two (2) new build care homes developed on the Sites to provide the Council with:
a) Dedicated access to a number of the guaranteed beds for Council placements that must be priced below or within the Council’s fee methodology, and
b) The ability to spot purchase additional beds over and above the guaranteed beds at a confirmed fee that must be below or within the Council’s fee methodology.