Health and social work services

Tender description

The City of London Corporation (the ‘City’) is undertaking a 1 stage procurement process in relation to a Rough Sleeping Outreach Service (the ‘Service’). The Service aims to meet the needs of rough sleepers and those engaged in the associated street culture as outlined in the City Homelessness strategy. The Service will provide all rough sleepers with a holistic, tailored, wrap-around support that will: — build trust and relationships with the individual rough sleeper, — use a personalised and strengths-based approach, — prevent individuals from revolving around services and/or returning to the streets, — progress individuals towards independence in an assertive and timely manner, — ensure individuals are given accurate advice on their rights, responsibilities and entitlement. Further information for this opportunity can be found in II.2.4) Description of the procurement field (of this notice). The Service to be procured from the proposed contract is classified under Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as ‘Health and social work services’. Therefore, the Service advertised in the Official Journal of the European (OJEU), i.e. this contract notice, fall among those listed in Annex XIV to Directive 2014/24/EU and the full obligations set out in that directive do not apply. For the avoidance of doubt, the contract is to be procured in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Regulations 74 to 78, more commonly known as the light touch regime. The precise procurement process to be used is as described in the procurement documents. The procurement is being run as a 1 stage process, resembling the open procedure and its main features — which includes the core elements of the standard selection questionnaire (SQ). Any organisation that considers itself able to meet the requirements of the selection criteria within the qualification envelope is invited to submit a tender. The requirements of the Service are set out in the procurement documents, particularly the Service Specification — available from: https://www.capitalesourcing.com The service provider will: — respond to the self referrals of people sleeping rough within 6 hours and within 12 hours for all other referrals, — design, deliver and monitor a specific information gathering network for residents, businesses, stakeholders and the council built on Streetlink, — offer new rough sleepers a route off the street within 72 hrs, — deliver a street based shift every night or early morning, — ensure a casework service is operating weekdays during office hours, — increase the annual proportion of new individuals not spending a second night out to 63 %, — increase the number of reconnections, — reduce the number of those joining the ‘Living on the Streets’ cohort, — reduce those categorised as ‘Living on the Streets’ year on year, — reduce the headline street count figure year on year, — increase the proportion of moves from the street into accommodation, — facilitate 6 street counts a year, — lead the local response to the serious weather emergency protocol (SWEP) when activated. The duration of the contract is 3 years, with the option to extend up to 2 further years in annual increments. The contract is intended to commence 1.8.2020 to 31.7.2023. Organisations should note that the estimated budget for this Service will be up to 2 250 000 GBP and is based on 1 core budget (c 360 000 GBP per annum) and conditional contributions externally (c 90 000 GBP per annum). The Contracting authority cannot therefore guarantee the level of external conditional contributions received for the Service and reserves the right to include caveats within the procurement documents relating to the external conditional contributions. Furthermore the Contracting authority reserves the right to vary the contract to include additional funding and service deliverable(s) — see the procurement documents for further information with regard to these elements. The estimated total value of the contract is also stated in II.1.5) and II.2.6) of this notice and is for the entire duration, i.e. including the optional extensions. Organisations should be aware that due to the contract value (of the Service), any contract formed as a result of this procurement process shall be executed as a deed. Organisations should seek independent legal advice on the implications of this prior to submitting their tender, where appropriate.