Domiciliary care for Swindon Borough Council

Swindon Borough Council (the Authority) is seeking to appoint a service provider to coordinate manage & deliver (both directly and
indirectly) domiciliary care & community support services in Swindon (the Project). The successful provider (Lead Provider) will be required to transition the provision of the services to service users from a traditional time/task service model to an outcomes-based service model & ultimately to provide the services on the basis of an agreed Capitated Budget . The term of the Contract will be 10 years subject to contract reviews at years 5 and 8 where the Parties will have the option to make changes to the Contract or terminate the arrangements.

The Project will consist of 3 Phases: Phase 1-Provision of the services on a time/task model Phase 2-Transition of the services to an
outcomes-based model Phase 3-Delivery of the services by way of a Capitated Budget. The Capitated Budget will involve payment by the Authority in advance of an agreed budget to the Lead Provider to deliver the Services to specific population groups. The Capitated Budget will be agreed during the term of the Contract. See the procurement documentation for further details.
Modifications of the arrangements under the Contract may be made during its term to facilitate the implementation of the Capitated Budget & the scope of the Contract may be extended to include additional services (see procurement documentation).
Any modifications shall be strictly in accordance with Reg 72 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 & shall be effected in accordance with the change procedures set out in the Contract..
Estimated value excluding VAT: 150 000 000.00 GBP

The Authority is adopting the Competitive Dialogue Procedure which will include the following stages: pre-qualification, invitation to
submit outline solutions, dialogue, call for final tenders (CFT), preferred bidder and contract award. The Authority reserves the right to
have an invitation to submit detailed solutions stage between the dialogue and CFT stages. The Authority intends to reduce the number of solutions/participants during the stages of the competitive dialogue.

Please refer to the procurement documentation for further details.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Interested parties are able to register an interest by going to the web address:
http://www.ashfordsdataroom.co.uk and entering the following details: Username: Swindoncare Password: swindon123 . Please note that these paswords are all case sensitive






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

Contract Period

The contract will be initially for a period of 120 months commencing ( to be determined – likely early 2017) with the review breaks at years 5 and 8

If you require any clarifications on the PQQ documents please submit as directed in the tender guide.

Clarifications regarding the PQQ or the requirement should be directed to http://www.ashfordsdataroom.co.uk when a response will be provided in the dataroom within 5 days.

In the event of difficulties accessing the data room please contact gward@swindon.gov/uk in the first instance

Please note that this project has been advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) Contract Notice reference 2016/S 107-190741 Contracts Finder/ other web portals, however the portal supplied by Ashfords is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to 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.