Health and social work services

Tender description

West Lothian Council has a requirement to purchase Care at Home services from external service providers. Care at home services provide personalised care, including social and emotional support to enable people to continue or resume residing in their own home. The purpose of the service is to ensure quality of life for the individual, while enabling them to retain their independence. Successful delivery of the service involves putting the person at the centre of the decisions about the way they live and The support that they want to receive. The Council wish to appoint successful service providers to a framework, in addition to 2 block contracts which are being advertised separately. The highest service providers will be appointed to the framework and must score at least 50 % of the maximum available quality score to be appointed to the framework. West Lothian Council has a requirement to purchase Care at Home services from external service providers. Care at home services provide personalised care, including social and emotional support to enable people to continue or resume residing in their own home. The purpose of the service is to ensure quality of life for the individual, while enabling them to retain their independence. Successful delivery of the service involves putting the person at the centre of the decisions about the way they live and the support that they want to receive. Service providers will be expected to provide high quality services in line with the care at home and housing support national care standards to: — people aged 16 years and older who are living in their own home, and — who are deemed ordinarily resident in West Lothian, and — who have been assessed as meeting the eligibility criteria. Providers will be required to adopt adoption of an electronic call monitoring system as specified by the Council is a condition of the contract. Payment will be based on actual service hours adjusted in accordance with a banding system. The highest ranked providers will be appointed to the framework and will need to score at least 50 % of the maximum available quality score to be appointed to the framework. In accordance with provisions 74 — 76 of the Public Contracts (Scotland)Regulations 2015 for the Award of contracts for social and other specific services, the Council is utilising the flexibility offered whilst complying with the EU Treaty principles of equal treatment and transparency. This will allow the framework to be re-opened to competition for new entrants at the discretion of the Council each year on 1 April. In accordance with section 67 (5) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, i.e. the cost element may also take the form of a fixed price or cost on the basis of which economic operators will compete on quality criteria only, the cost element is 18,00 GBP per hour.