Construction work

Tender description

The Council is seeking to establish a framework of suitably qualified and experienced organisations, or consortia of organisations (the Providers), who it can work with to extend the development of extra care housing schemes across the County. The framework will allow the Council to commission extra care housing developments and associated services through a single end to end process in which the Providers will provide the capacity and ability to design, build, finance, operate and maintain schemes that are developed. The extra care housing will provide safe and secure housing for people aged 55 or older with a care and/or support need or 18 to 55 with a learning and/or physical disability who require varying levels of care and support to enable them to live independently in a home environment. This contract is no guarantee of placement by the service user. Placements will be down to the service user's individual choice. It is the view of the partnership that we would be seeking a small number of prime suppliers who would either deliver the requirements themselves or sub contract these services to small to medium enterprise organisations, wherever possible supporting the economic growth of their geographical area. This framework will be available for use by Essex County Council (ECC) and the following Contracting Authorities: Basildon Council; Braintree District Council; Brentwood Borough Council; Castle Point Borough Council; Chelmsford City Council; Colchester Borough Council; Epping Forest District Council; Harlow Council; Maldon District Council; Rochford District Council; Tendring District Council; Uttlesford District Council; NHS Property Services Ltd; Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Mid Essex Hospitals Services NHS Trust; North Essex University Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; South Essex University Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Supplier Portal will be used throughout the procurement process and all communications with ECC relating to this procurement exercise must be via the Supplier Portal. The PQQ will be available via the Supplier Portal from the 1.8.2016. The Supplier Portal has instructions on how to use the system and access the information as well as a help desk to assist Bidders. Bidders must contact ECC to request to be invited to participate in this procurement by following these instructions: 1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to: email2workspace-prod+ECC+WS710952472+xonh@ansmtp.ariba.com asking to be invited to the event, and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details. 2. If you have more than 1 registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage. If you do not know if your organisation is already registered on Ariba, contact the help desk on 0800 358 3556 to check this 1st. If your organisation is registered, ask for the details of the Account User Administration Manager then contact that person to be added to your organisation's registered users. If your organisation is not registered, follow the guide to create a new record. If you are not registered in Ariba at all go to: http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full And follow the instructions to register, and then follow steps 1 and 2 above (Please Note: 35 % completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100 % completion).