Health and social work services

Tender description

The Adults with Complex Needs service targets two separate but linked cohorts — adults with Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (SMD), and adults with SMD and a particular alcohol need. The first cohort, Adults with SMD, is comprised of people who have three or more of the following disadvantages: — substance misuse, — homelessness or accommodation instability, — offending or ASB needs, — mental health difficulties. The second cohort, adults with SMD and a particular alcohol need, is made up of individuals who repeatedly present at the Northern General Hospital with alcohol related conditions and support needs, and receive unplanned medical alcohol detoxification packages. The Adults with Complex Needs service is targeting the following outcomes for the adults with SMD strand: — increase in the number of individuals living in safe, secure and appropriate accommodation, — reduction in the number of unplanned hospital admissions, — reduction in involvement in crime and anti-social behaviour, — improvement in wellbeing, And the following outcomes for the particular alcohol need strand: — reduce the number of unplanned inpatient alcohol related admissions for a defined cohort of individuals who have frequent admissions to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals; — reduce the number of unplanned read missions within 30 days of discharge for this cohort (all read missions – not solely alcohol related admissions). More information about the indicative cohort size and range of outcomes expected to be achieved by each strand of the service is available in the tender documentation. Sheffield City Council has been awarded a grant in principle by the Life Chances Fund to make a partial contribution to the outcome payments of an outcomes-based contract to deliver the adults with complex needs service. The Council's preferred model is for services for both cohorts to be awarded through a single Social Impact Bond (SIB). The procurement process does allow for alternatives to a single SIB to be considered however prior to the invitation to tender stage. The SIB is expected to require the involvement of a social investor who will have the necessary expertise to raise investment to fund mobilisation and working capital, and potentially to bear the financial risk of an outcomes based contract. At the invitation to tender stage bidders will be required to source their own social investment and submit a fully financed bid. Bidders do not need to have identified a social investor partner or have formalized other elements relating to social investment at the initial SSQ stage however. The subject matter of this procurement process relates to the delivery of services which are listed to in Schedule 3 to the regulations. As such the full regime set out in the regulations will not apply to the award of the service contract. Consequently, the procurement process adopted has been developed in accordance with Regulation 76 of the regulations and in particular in accordance with the fundamental public procurement principles of transparency and equal treatment. For the avoidance of doubt this means that the Commissioners have not adopted the competitive dialogue procedure (as such term is defined in the regulations) for the undertaking of this procurement process. The fact that in the OJEU Contract notice at Section IV.1.1) the field/box relating to type of procedure may default to the term “Competitive dialogue” does not mean that this procedure is being followed by the Commissioners.