Health and social work services

Tender description

The provision of domiciliary homecare services for adult's, sufficient to meet the assessed needs of eligible individuals, is required in order for the Council to comply with its statutory social care responsibilities, as set out in the Care Act 2014. It is intended that the dynamic purchasing system (DPS) will help to grow the marketplace and be utilised when services cannot be fulfilled by providers on the Council’s existing framework. As a result, it will help improve the Council’s capacity to meet increasing demand for services, avoid delays in service delivery and minimise the need to ‘Spot Purchase’ provision. The DPS may, in future, also be used to procure continuing health care and/or 24-hour care for the following (Adults) service categories: memory and cognition, mental health, autism, physical disability Domiciliary homecare providers that wish to join the DPS will be required to demonstrate that they can deliver the published service specification to the required quality standard at an acceptable cost and meet the accreditation and enrolement criteria (developed in line with the PCR 2015 Crown Commercial Services standard selection questionnaire). In those circumstances where providers on the Council’s existing framework for domiciliary homecare services do not have the capacity to meet the needs of an eligible individual, providers accepted onto the DPS will be invited to apply to deliver the required services. On receipt, applications will be evaluated on the basis of quality and price and a service agreement awarded to the provider achieving the highest score.