Health and social work services

Tender description

Kirklees Council, in conjunction with the Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group and North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group, wishes to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of domiciliary care services. The purpose of the procurement exercise is to seek and appoint providers to the DPS, who have the relevant skills and experience, for the delivery of personal care and support (domiciliary care) in service users homes. Kirklees Council and the CCG's wish to establish a DPS to be able to access additional capacity in the market and be able to purchase services to support people to live successfully in their own homes with an appropriate range of person centred services and to enable service users receiving care to lead a good quality of life, maximising their independence, remain safe and comfortable in their own homes for as long as possible whilst maintaining their individual dignity, privacy and freedom of choice. The Council wishes to maintain the best possible care for service users by procuring in the most effective way to stabilise and sustain its providers. The purpose of this procurement exercise will be to appoint a number of providers to the DPS, who have the relevant skills and experience and registered with the CQC, to deliver personal care and support (domiciliary care) in people’s homes. Kirklees Council wishes to purchase services to support people to live successfully in their own homes with an appropriate range of person centred services and to enable service users receiving care to lead a good quality of life, maximising their independence, remain safe and comfortable in their own homes for as long as possible whilst maintaining their individual dignity, privacy, freedom of choice and treating them with respect. The services are provided 365 days and nights each year if required for service users residing within the Kirklees area whom have been assessed by the Council as requiring domiciliary support services. For the purpose of the domiciliary care services, Kirklees has been divided into 6 geographical zones. Each zone has already been awarded to one single principal provider. There is also a domiciliary care framework agreement (DC Framework) which underpins the principal providers across all the zones. The principal provider contracts and DC framework expire 3 December 2020 with an option to extend for a further 2 years up to 3 December 2022. Kirklees intend that the Principal providers in each zone will provide approximately 70 % of contracted hours of service within that zone. The remaining 30 % is offered to the DC framework providers. The domiciliary care services DPS will provide additional capacity to access the market for services when neither the principal providers nor DC framework providers are able to pick up packages of care. The DPS will initially run for a period of 60 months with the successful economic operators, with the provision to extend the DPS for a further period, or for successive periods, for a further 60 months. North Kirklees and Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) wishes to maintain the best possible care for service users by procuring in the most effective way to stabilise and sustain its providers. The purpose of this procurement exercise will be to appoint a number of providers to the DPS, who have the relevant skills and experience and registered with the CQC, to deliver Personal Care and Support (domiciliary care) and health care interventions in people’s homes. The CCGs wish to purchase services to support people to live successfully in their own homes with an appropriate range of person centred services and to enable service users receiving care to lead a good quality of life, maximising their independence, remain safe and comfortable in their own homes for as long as possible whilst maintaining their individual dignity, privacy, freedom of choice and treating them with respect. The services are provided 365/6 days and nights each year if required for service users registered with a Kirklees GP whom have been assessed by the NHS as being eligible for NHC Continuing Healthcare or 117 Aftercare. Packages of care will be allocated depending on the stated geographical area covered by the provider and available capacity in the Service to commence a package within 72 hours as a maximum. Where 2 or more providers have the same geographical coverage the continuing care team will inform all providers in that area by email of the requirements of the package. Providers can then respond to the request for care. The DPS will initially run for a period of 60 months with the successful economic operators, with the provision to extend the DPS for a further period, or for successive periods, for a further 60 months.