Shropshire Council: GB-Shrewsbury: AMCV 291 – Independent Living Centre Service for Shropshire

Competitive Contract Notice

1. Title: GB-Shrewsbury: AMCV 291 – Independent Living Centre Service for Shropshire
2. Awarding Authority:
    Shropshire Council
    Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND, United Kingdom
    Tel. 01743 252992, Fax. 01743 253910, Email: procurement@shropshire.gov.uk, URL: www.shropshire.gov.uk
    Contact: Procurement, Attn: Procurement
3. Contract Type: Services
      Sub Type: Health and social services.

4. Description: Health and social work services. The priorities for Shropshire’s Draft Health & Wellbeing Strategy are focused on Prevention (Health promotion and resilience) and Sustainability (Promoting independence at home). In addition the Council’s Corporate Plan priorities include ‘Care for those in need at any age’ and ‘More people with a suitable home’ which means that people should be enabled to be as independent as they van be in a home suitable for their needs. The availability of an Independent Living Centre service will support these priorities through helping to increase the availability and use of aids and adaptations through promotion and signposting, as well as its core activity of undertaking occupational therapy assessments for adaptations and equipment (‘Consultations’).

Shropshire Council wishes to contract with an organisation which can help it to achieve these aims through the following elements:
1.Provision of a Core Independent Living Centre Service
2.Provision of an Independent Living Worker / Facilitator service to provide rapid and intensive support and practical assistance for people with complex ‘independent living’ needs

Funding for this contract is fixed at £293,500 per annum (Elements 1 and 2 aggregated) although up to an additional £30,000 per annum may be made available to expand Element 2 at the discretion of the Council.

It is considered that the Employee ‘Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations ‘2006 (‘TUPE’) may apply to this contract. Applicants are advised to seek their own legal advice about the practicality of these regulations.

The contract will be for a period of 1 year with effect from 1st April 2020 with an option to extend for a maximum of a further 6 months.
5. CPV Codes:
   85000000 - Health and social work services.

6. NUTS Codes :
   UKG22 - Shropshire CC

7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: Shropshire CC,
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority: AMCV 291
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: Category H: 100K to 500K
Currency: GBP
10. Deadline for Expression of Interest: 13/03/2020 12:00:00
11. Address to which they must be sent:
   Not Provided
   
12. Other Information:
Other Information: For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-GB-Shrewsbury:-AMCV-291-%E2%80%93-Independent-Living-Centre-Service-for-Shropshire/2P2787279G

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/2P2787279G
TKR-2020221-PRO-16034599
Suitable for VCO: Yes
Procedure Type:OPEN
Period of Work Start date: 01/04/2020
Period of Work End date: 30/09/2021
Is this a Framework Agreement?: no