Health and social work services

Tender description

In-line with the national Transforming Care agenda Lancashire County Council (LCC) have been working closely in partnership with the Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen Local Authorities to consider the provision required for people with learning disabilities and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges including those with a mental health condition and require a placement in the community following an in-patient stay or to prevent an in-patient admission. Due to the estimated discharges within the next 12 months within the pan Lancashire area a Flexible Agreement has been developed. This is intended to be an interim agreement and will initially be in place for 1 year with the option to extend for up to a further 3 years if required. This procurement was to develop a pan Lancashire Transforming Care Flexible Agreement. The estimated quantity of work that is intended to be commissioned via the agreement is broken down by an indicative number of discharges into the community: Within the 1st 12 months: 35; Following the 1st 12 months it is anticipated that there will be up to 20 discharges a year over the next 3 years. The estimated value of the work that is intended to be commissioned via the agreement is between 20 000 000 GBP and 150 000 000 GBP.