Supported Housing for Individuals with a Mental Health Need (Swindon)

Supported Housing for Individuals with a Mental Health Need (Swindon)

Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of supported housing for individuals with a mental health need.

Project Description

Swindon Borough Council (SBC), wishes to submit to tender the requirements for the provision of supported housing for individuals with a mental health need.

Swindon Borough Council is seeking to commission housing and support for around 50 individuals living in Swindon with a mental health need. The purpose of this service is to provide housing and support for individuals who cannot maintain independent living. The overall aim of this service is to provide service users with the skills and confidence needed to enable them to move on to and maintain independent living with little or no ongoing support.

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

Contract Period

The contract will be initially for a period of 48 months commencing 1st April 2018 with the option to extend for two additional periods of 24 months each, subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability.

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

Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 29th September 2017, 12 noon UK Local time by hardcopy.

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 Abi Cockerell at acockerell@swindon.gov.uk by 22nd September 2017, 1200 noon UK Local time.

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 contact Abi Cockerell at acockerell@swindon.gov.uk.

Please note that this project has been advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) Contract Notice reference 2017/S 150-311065 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.