Essex Independent Living Developer Provider Framework

Tender description

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CLOSING DATE FOR THIS PROJECT IS 1st SEPTEMBER 2016 AT 12 NOON** Essex County 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. The contract will be for a term of 7 Years. Applicants must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender 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 2.ECC use Ariba as our e-sourcing platform. If you have more than one registered Ariba user, who you want invited to the event, please 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 are not registered on Ariba, please go to: http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register, 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.) Support in the use of Ariba is available at: http://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/Pages/default.aspx If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please contact: Simon Evans, Category Specialist email: simon.evans@essex.gov.uk