Community health services

Tender description

Bedford Borough Council (‘the Council’) is inviting tenders from organisations wishing to enter into a contract opportunity to deliver domiciliary care for children and young people within Bedford Borough, with the aim of providing personal care and community enabling support (known collectively as ‘domiciliary care’). The contract opportunity is only available for use by Bedford Borough Council only. The notional value quoted on the OJEU notice is indicative of the immediate requirement of packages over the contract period (4-year term) and is expected to fluctuate throughout the life of the contract with new packages being introduced throughout the contract term and some which may drop off. To enable the child/young person to go out and take part in activities in the local community such as leisure, sports, clubs, interest groups, individual activities and access to the natural environment and local play facilities. The outcomes for this element of the Service include developing independence, personal achievements, enjoyment, social skills and friendships, staying safe and managing self and short breaks for carers. Where a CYP Service User does not have personal care needs, then the supplier in these circumstances will not need to be CQC registered. The CYP will have a range of needs; some of which may include challenging behaviour, moving and handling or medical needs. To provide enabling support, the worker will usually need to have access to suitable transport and/or support the CYP to use public transport. To provide care in the home, to be supplied according to family need and following an assessment, in order to assist families who require additional help working with the child and family together. This will include providing support where there is a personal care element needed such as bathing/showering, toileting, changing, continence management, dealing with the consequences of immobility, feeding, dressing and also support with challenging behaviour and health interventions and administration of medication. This may include night/waking night support and sitting service. Suppliers(s) for this element of the Services will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and to maintain that registration throughout the contract period. The supplier will deliver packages of care to children and young people with high level of complex medical and/or health needs. Support will generally need to be delivered on a 1:1 basis by staff members/nurses with appropriate medical training in place in accordance with the CYP’s assessed needs. The support required will be agreed on a case-by-case basis and with input from other health professionals and the allocated social worker with whom the supplier will work with in close partnership. This will be an approved providers’ List formed of suppliers who have unsuccessfully tendered for the services and have had their bid submission evaluated for lots 1-3. All bidders who wish to be considered for this provision (the APL) must indicate their interest by returning a price both for their preferred lot(s) and to deliver the services on the APL. The successful suppliers will deliver services for the respective Lots (1–3) that they originally tendered for and won and in line with the individual service specification for each lot. The unsuccessful bidders for lots 1–3 who have indicated interest will then automatically be co-opted into Lot 4. The APL will be ranked according to the outcome of the MEAT evaluation and any available work will be awarded from the top down in rank. • note that there is no guarantee of any work for this lot; • there is no restriction on the number of lots bidders can bid for ; • successful APL suppliers are expected to complete the APL agreement and will complete related Contracts for each package awarded to them.