Other community, social and personal services

Tender description

The Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG) wishes to procure a new contract(s) for an organisation(s), on an England-wide basis, to deliver the National Body for Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) contract. This National Body will provide services that will represent, coordinate, and offer guidance, leadership and training for HIAs and the wider home adaptations sector, including local housing authorities to help them meet their statutory duty to provide adaptations to people who qualify for the Disabled facilities grant (DFG). The National Body will help support local delivery of the DFG and continued development of HIA services across England, representing and steering the home adaptations sector working closely with Government, local authorities and other stakeholders, and maintaining a publicly available database of HIA services. MHCLG intend to carry out a pre tender market engagement exercise, the purpose of which is to: — help define the requirement, — help provide a better understanding of the feasibility of the requirement, — understand the best approach, — understand the capacity of the market to deliver and possible risks involved, and — provide the market with an opportunity to ask questions, raise queries and any issues to be addressed at an early stage. The core requirements of the contract are to: — provide capacity development support to HIA service commissioners and the wider home adaptations sector as well as day-to-day support including advice and guidance on setting up, running, maintaining and making process improvements around the delivery of DFGs, — support the sector to drive forward greater integration between health, housing and social care services, — provide support and guidance to local housing authorities (district councils in 2-tier areas) to help them meet their statutory duty to deliver home adaptations to people who qualify for the DFG, — provide advice and support to Government when requested including information to assist with policy development and responding to enquiries around DFG delivery, — represent the home adaptations sector in working with Government, local authorities, HIAs and other stakeholders, and — provide a free information and advice service to members of the public and wider stakeholders around housing options, including home adaptations, home repairs and hospital discharges and maintaining a publicly accessible database of HIA services in England. Further information can be found at https://dclg.bravosolution.co.uk Potential suppliers may raise questions or seek clarification regarding any aspect of this PTME document before 17.00 on 17.9.2019. Questions must be submitted by the ‘Messages’ function in PQQ_11 National Body for Home Improvement Agencies on Bravosolution. To use this service: — register for a free account at https://dclg.bravosolution.co.uk — click the 'PQQs Open To All Suppliers' link (these are selection questionnaires (SQ) open to any registered supplier), — click on the relevant PQQ to access the content. PQQ_11 National Body for Home Improvement Agencies, — click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ into your 'My PQQs' page (this is a secure area reserved for your projects only). You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'PQQ Details' box Click 'My Response' under 'PQQ Details', you can choose to: — 'Create Response', or — 'Decline to Respond'. You can now use the 'Messages' function to communicate with the authority and seek any clarification. Date response required: 16.00 (GMT) 20.9.2019.