Long Term Care and Support and Reablement

Through this procurement the council intends to tender for one geographically based neighbourhood provider for long term care and support at home and two providers for geographically based reablement support. All contracts will run for up to 1.5 years until 31 March 2025 with a combined cost of £3.9 million. The contract term will align with current long term care and reablement contracts which will also end in March 2025 when a new approach to care and support at home will commence.
Only organisations with a Care Quality Commision (CQC) inspection rating of "Good" or higher will be considered
The tender is divided into three lots

1. Long-term care – Central neighbourhood
2. Reablement – North West locality with defined geographical boundary
3. Reablement – North East locality with defined geographical boundary

For all three Lots applicants will be shortlisted against scored selection criteria questions which will test experience and capacity to deliver similar services. The highest scoring 5 applicants will then have their tender award criteria responses evaluated against the published award criteria.

The services being tendered fall under the Light Touch Regime of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 .
Tenderers will be able to bid for both reablement contracts but cannot win both. As part of their submission tenderers will state their preference for Lot 2 or Lot 3 should they be the highest scoring tender for that Lot. When awarding the contracts, the contract for Lot 2 will be awarded to the highest scoring applicant and the remaining Lot to the second highest scoring applicant.
The price quality ratio for this tender is 40:60

For the information need to submit a tender(s) please access the documents on this tender portal.