Health and social work services

Tender description

Swindon Borough Council (SBC), wishes providers to submit tenders for its requirements for an interim domiciliary care framework. The contract will run from July 2017 for an initial term of 2 years with the option to extend for 2 further periods of 1 year each, subject to satisfactory contract performance and budget availability. The total potential contract term will be 4 years. The estimated contract value will be between 0 GBP and 8 650 000 GBP per annum, totalling 0 GBP to 17 300 000 GBP during the initial 2-year term and 0 GBP to 34 600 000 GBP across the total contract term including extensions. Volumes and values of work are estimated and not guaranteed. All tender documents are available in the attachments section on the tender advert on the South West Portal available at www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk Reference: DN250367. Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of an Interim Domiciliary Care Framework. This will be accreditation based framework that ensures the council a basic level of compliance of service, agreement to set hourly tariff and submission and monitoring of key performance indicators and data on a quarterly basis. All providers who meet the criteria will be awarded onto the framework; providers will be required to compete for each new piece of work and evaluated against the criteria outlined in the tender documents. This interim framework will provide domiciliary care provision for the period prior to the main/master domiciliary contract anticipated to being in place in autumn 2017. During the framework period the Council will work with providers to move to an outcome approach rather than a time and task focus. Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender document.