Health and social work services

Tender description

GCC Subsidised Community Meals Service 2016-2019. Gloucestershire County Council is tendering for a Subsided Community Meals Service. The contract will be for 3 years with a potential 2 year extension. The subsidised community meals contract will provide nutritionally balanced hot meals to promote the health and nutritional well-being of older people and people with disabilities living in their own homes. The service is a short term intervention, in most cases it will be provided while a customer recovers from an illness, set back or completes a period of re-ablement. The contract will focus on maximising personal independence and enabling people to stay in their own homes for as long as possible leading independent lives with more flexibility and choice, and ensuring value for money for all parties. The Contractor will work in partnership with the Authority to implement the Community Support Model. We expect potential contractors to meet a number of minimum standards; these are detailed in the ITT. We advise all interested contractors to read the entire ITT and all documents referenced or linked to within the ITT carefully, to inform themselves about the opportunity and whether they would be interested in submitting a response. Deadline for submitting a tender response: 16.10.2015 at 12:00 noon. Please login to Procontract via www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk and register your interest in the opportunity. You will then be issued a confidentiality agreement which needs to be completed and sent via ProContract, in order to access the ITT documents. All questions related to this contract should be sent using the discussions function which will be available once you have logged in and registered your interest.