Prevention and Early Intervention Services

The London Borough of Enfield (the ‘contracting authority’) is seeking to appoint up to five (5) suitably qualified providers to deliver its Prevention and Early Intervention Services. The aim of the Prevention and Early Intervention Services is to support Enfield residents to access the right information and support, at the right time. This means that people are enabled to live independently for longer, with good outcomes and without the need for more intensive support from health or social care.

The Service is divided into five Lots with each Lot envisaged to have a separate contract. The 5 individual Lots are as follows:

Lot 1: Supporting Unpaid Carers
Lot 2: Supporting Independence through Information & Advice Digital Inclusion & Assistive Technology
Lot 3: Supporting Independence through Advocacy & Inclusion
Lot 4: Supporting Independence & Inclusion Through Early Intervention
Lot 5: Home from Hospital, Supporting Recovery & Maintaining Independence
The proposed contracts are for an initial term of 3 years. The contracting authority, at its absolute sole discretion, may exercise an option to extend the contracts at the end of the initial term for two further period or periods of up to 3 years each, up to 9 years in total subject to contract and satisfactory performance.

The Services advertised in this notice fall under the services listed in chapter 3 and Schedule 3 (Social and other specific services) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The procurement process that will apply to the services is specified in the procurement documents accordingly.

The procurement is being run as a two-stage process with a pre-selection stage using the core elements of the Standard Selection Questionnaire, and then a second stage, where shortlisted candidates will be invited to tender. Therefore, candidates ranked within the top 5 (for the Lot they are applying for) for total scores in Technical and Professional Ability and Service Specific Questions of the SSQ will be shortlisted for the second stage of the process, i.e., Invitation to Tender. If two candidates achieve the same score in the scored questions of the SSQ, a candidate that scores high in Technical and Professional Ability question will be chosen over the other. If they still score the same in the Technical and Professional Ability question, then a candidate that scores high in both Technical and Professional Ability and one of the Service Specific Questions (Delivering Previous Services) will be selected.

So, the contracting authority is inviting interested organisations for expression of interest via submission of a Selection Questionnaire to participate in this procurement. Interested organisations must submit the Selection Questionnaire and relevant financial information documents via the contracting authority’s e-Tendering portal: London Tenders Portal www.londontenders.org by the return deadline which is 12:00 noon on 18 November 2024. Instructions for completing the Selection Questionnaire (SSQ Appendix 2) and the SSQ Evaluation Method (SSQ Appendix 3) are uploaded on to the e-Tendering portal.

Following the completion of the first stage supplier selection/SQ process, the contracting authority will invite pre-qualified candidates to submit their tender(s) applicable to the Lot(s) that have been applied for. Please refer to the procurement documents uploaded on to the portal for further information.