Health and social work services

Tender description

Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council wish to invite tenders for the supply of multi-disciplinary floating support services. The service will support at least 458 households at any 1 time across the whole of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The successful provider will support vulnerable young people and adults to live independently. The service will be a visiting housing-related support service and is intended to be short-term (3-6 months) and will provide a flexible, practical service to resolve any issues that may be impacting on their housing situation and support independence. Care tasks are excluded from this service (e.g. personal care, domestic tasks, childcare, specialist counselling). This service is not aimed specifically at older people (there is a separate older peoples visiting support service in Cambridgeshire). Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council invite tenders for a single multi-disciplinary floating support service. The contract will be for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 1 year. The annual budget is currently 952 922 GBP. Commissioners view that floating support delivers good value for money and the direction of travel with regard to housing related support is that this model of support is its preferred option. With this in mind it is therefore envisaged that there may be increased budget available through this contract to support people who are currently living in supported housing if it is deemed to provide better value for money following the supported housing review taking place in 2018.