Supported Housing and Floating Support for Young People (Swindon)

Supported Housing and Floating Support for Young People (Swindon)

Swindon Borough Council invite expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of accommodation based support and floating support services for young people aged 16 to 25 living in Swindon.

Swindon Borough Council is seeking to commission housing and support for around 150 young people and young families living in Swindon. This will consist of accommodation based support and floating support.

The purpose of this service is to provide housing and support for young people who cannot maintain independent living. The overall aim of this service is to provide service users with skills and confidence to enable them to move on to and maintain independent living with little or no ongoing support.

The contract will be tendered as four lots:

Lot 1: Up to 75 units of accommodation based support for single people offering 24/7 staff cover

Lot 2: Up to 25 units of accommodation based for single people support offering weekday support

Lot 3: Up to 25 units of accommodation based support for young parents offering weekday support

Lot 4: Floating support for up to 50 single people and young parents.

Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender documents.

The contract will be for an initial term of three and a half years to run from 1st October 2017 to 31st March 2021. There is an option for the Council to extend for two additional periods of two years each, subject to satisfactory contract performance, meeting KPIs and budget availability. The total maximum term is seven and a half years.

The relevant tender documents are included within this project webpage as attachments.

Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 31/03/2017, 12 noon by hard copy only.

If you require any clarifications on the tender documents please submit these in writing via e-mail, including the project name clearly in the e-mail title, to Ian Stenner at istenner@swindon.gov.uk by 31/03/17, 12.00 GMT.

The Council’s responses to these clarification questions will be uploaded as attachments on the project webpage attachments section. Therefore it is the Contractor’s responsibility to check the site regularly for updates to clarifications, as you will not be advised when updates have been made.

In the event of difficulties downloading tender documents, please refer to the named contacts Ian Stenner at istenner@swindon.gov.uk.

Please note that this project has been advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), Contract Notice Reference 2017/S 021-035816 and Contracts Finder, however, Supplying the South West Portal is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to this opportunity.

We would encourage you to click on the ‘Register interest’ button to help the Council monitor the level of interest in this opportunity.

No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full including attachments and returning them in alignment with the instructions within the tender documents.