Health and social work services

Tender description

The Council is seeking to appoint one or more providers to deliver the following two contracts: — Housing Support Services for Young Homeless Adults; — Housing Support Services for Single Homeless People and Families. The service provided under each contract will assist the Council in fulfilling the Council’s statutory duty and to achieve the outcomes set out in the Council’s Local Housing Strategy 2016-2021 to provide temporary accommodation and support to enable households to move out of homelessness and into settled accommodation. These contracts will replace existing arrangements for these types of service users and tenderers will require to work with the existing provider for transition of the service and existing service users. Each contract will be for an initial period of 2 years with the option to extend each contract on two separate occasions for a period of up to 12 months subject to the satisfactory operation and performance of the individual contract. The lot 1 service will be delivered principally to young people aged between 16-24 years of age. This service will be delivered from third party owned premises located at 31 Argyle Street, Paisley PA1 2ES and Bruce Court, 43-45 Dundonald Road, Paisley PA3 4NB. The successful provider will require separately to enter into arrangements for use of these premises with the third-party owners. The provider will also require to separately arrange a housing management service to support service users as explained in the service specification. The contracts contained in this notice are for housing support services, however the manner in which any provider makes formal arrangements for the lease of premises will directly impact upon the Council and may result in higher costs to the Council. More detailed information in respect of the pricing for the contract is contained in the tender documents including the invitation to tender and service specification. The lot 2 service will be delivered principally to single homeless people and families. This service will be delivered from third party owned premises located at 5 Victoria Drive East, Renfrew, PA4 8EZ and 94 Paisley Road, Renfrew, PA4 8HD. The successful provider will require separately to enter into arrangements for use of these premises with the third-party owners. The provider will also require to separately arrange a housing management service to support service user as explained in the service specification. The contracts contained in this notice are for housing support services, however the manner in which any provider makes formal arrangements for the lease of premises will directly impact upon the Council and may result in higher costs to the Council. More detailed information in respect of the pricing for the contract is contained in the tender documents including the invitation to tender and service specification.