Other community, social and personal services

Tender description

Caerphilly County Borough Council (CCBC) are seeking to appoint an organisation to deliver specialist Housing Related Support (HRS) for people with mental ill health through the Housing Support Grant (HSG). The aim of the HSG is to enable vulnerable people to remain in a more independent living situation through the provision of support. This specification is outcomes based and the service provider is expected to offer an innovative and creative solution to meet accommodation and support needs, ensuring all possible outcomes are achieved is a priority whilst also seeking value for money, providing for the following packages of support. They also need to offer efficient savings over a longer period of time, ensuring that as people become more independent and need less support, the packages of support are tapered down to reflect this. Full details are in the ITT. Aims of the service To deliver HRS that reduces the: — incidences of tenancy breakdown and/or individuals losing their homes; — levels of homelessness and incidences of repeat homelessness — use of inappropriate temporary accommodation crisis admissions to hospital and delayed hospital discharges; — number of emergencies resulting in intensive services being required. The procurement process for this arrangement shall follow a two-stage, open procedure. Candidates will be required to pass the selection stage response before the award stage will be considered. Selection Stage: Stage One. This stage shall consist of pass/fail and scored questions. Bidders must pass all pass/fail questions and achieve a score of six or above for any scored questions in the selection stage to proceed to the award stage of the evaluation process. Award Stage: Stage Two. All organisations that successfully pass all elements of the selection stage will progress on to the award stage. This stage will be evaluated using the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) criterion, structured as price 20%/quality 80 %. The quality criteria will be divided into categories consisting of the following sub-criteria and weightings: Interview 60 %/case study 20 %. Full details of the tender specification and award criteria can be found in the ITT.