Health and social work services

Tender description

The service is to provide domiciliary care predominantly for older persons in Hampshire; The Tier 2 call-off will be looking for providers to deliver domiciliary care across Hampshire. The County will be split into 15 zones with providers able to tender for more than 1 zone. Providers can have a tier 2 contract in multiple zones. Where a tier 1 provider in the zone can not accept a package of care it will be referred to the tier 2 providers. Tier 2 providers who are able to start the referral by the set date will compete on price with the lowest priced provider being awarded the package of care. There is no requirement for a tier 2 provider to bid for any of the packages of care on tier 2. The service delivery model is made up of 2 elements, the 12 week post assessment period and long term care. In the 12 week post assessment period the providers are expected to take a strength based approach to delivering care to look to right size the package. The call off will be evaluated Care and Support at Home Tier 2 is a call-off which has been run under the Help to Live at Home Open Framework, set up under the light touch regulations, Tier 2 is available for all providers accepted onto the framework to apply for. When applying for tier 2 providers need to pass a number of pass/fail questions relating to the service they deliver. In addition they need to submit a consolidated hourly rate for all zones they wish to provide care in. Providers are able to set up to three rates for each zone they wish to work in. A standard rate which must be between 15 GBP and 20 GBP and 2 enhanced rates. There are no caps on the enhanced rates providers can set. Once accepted onto tier 2 there is no guarantee of any packages. All packages of care will be offered to the tier 1 contract in the zone first. Only those packages which the tier 1 provider can not accept will be referred to tier 2. A competition will then be run where all providers accepted onto tier 2 can bid for the package at the rates they set in their originally tender submission. As there is no guarantee of work the price attached to each contract in section V has been set at 1 GBP for each contract.