WSCC A Place to Live and Supported Living Service Market Consultation

Tender description

The current contracts for the A Place to Live Services and Supported Living Service expire on 31st March 2016. The Council is undertaking a market consultation exercise to help inform the decision making process and would welcome honest views from organisations regarding the structure of the procurement model and potential interest in bidding for contracts. Interested organisations can find a briefing paper and a questionnaire by expressing an interest in this project. In accordance with the Council’s standing orders on procurement and contracting the council will be undertaking a competitive process, in Autumn 2015, to award new contracts. Therefore the organisations that currently provide these services could change. The Council is proposing, subject to cabinet member decision, to award contracts for an initial period of 2 years, with an option to extend for up to a further 3 years until March 2021. Please note this is not the start of a procurement process; a separate contract notice will be published to cover this requirement and start that process. This market consultation exercise is being managed by Capita Business Services Limited (“Capita”) on behalf of the Council under a Strategic Services Outsource. The contract between the Council and Capita provides for tenders and all other information submitted to be treated as confidential by Capita to ensure competition is maintained, value for money is achieved and all bidders are treated equally and in a non-discriminatory way during the tendering and contract award procedures. The Council and Capita shall maintain a system of management processes, barriers, disciplines and confidentiality undertakings to ensure there is no conflict of interest in the procurement process and to prevent any disclosure to any Capita employee involved in submitting a tender for this procurement of any confidential information from other bidders. Information submitted by bidders will not be used by Capita for any other purpose than the provision of services to the Council under the Strategic Services Outsource.