Care home services and care home redevelopment opportunities in Cornwall

Tender description

Cornwall Council (the ‘Council’) published a contract notice (2023/S 000-019524) on the 7th July 2023 to commence a procurement process (as described in II.2.4) for an opportunity titled 'Care home services and care home re-development opportunities in Cornwall - DN635670'. Following the return date for this procurement process and the Council's evaluation of the responses received, the Council has taken a decision to abandon this procurement process and are now conducting some additional market engagement to further understand how the Council could potentially make this opportunity more attractive to potential applicants ahead of a potential second procurement process. If you are interested in participating in the Council’s soft market engagement exercise please: • Return your completed soft market engagement document via the ProContract system https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk by 12 noon Friday 29th September 2023. • Refer to VI.3. (Additional information) of this notice for further instructions. Lot 1: Within the Council's abandoned procurement the Council sought to procure one (1) Service Provider to deliver care services and the redevelopment of the following two care home Sites located in Cornwall: • Site 1 – Trefula Nursing Home, St Day, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5ET, and • Site 2 – Trengrouse, Trengrouse Way, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 8BA. The Council's abandoned procurement required the Service Provider to: 1)Purchase of the freehold interest in the two (2) Sites with a restriction for the Service Provider to build and operate a care home on each Site. 2) Undertake the operational management of the existing nursing care home at Site 1 while the Service Provider redevelops Site 1 in accordance with the Contract that will include the provision of care services and dedicate access to a number of guaranteed beds for Council placements that must be priced either below or within the Council’s fee methodology, 3) Secure funding, to enable the Service Provider to design, obtain planning permission, redevelop and construct a scheme on each of the two (2) Sites. As a minimum each scheme must include a new build care home on each Site to provide accommodation that is fit for purpose, designed to modern standards and meets the Council’s design principles for new build care homes, good practice for dementia friendly environments and any relevant CQC and legislative requirements. In addition to providing a new build care home on each of the two (2) Sites, the Service Provider will also be required to gain the best possible use of the wider Sites, and 4) Following completion of the schemes, to own and undertake the operational management of the scheme at each of the two (2) Sites and provide the provision of care services at the two (2) new build care homes developed on the Sites in accordance with the Council’s care services contract that requires the Service Provider to provide the Council with dedicated access to a number of the guaranteed beds and the ability to spot purchase additional beds for local authority placements that must be priced below or within the Council’s fee methodology Full details of the Council's abandoned procurement process is also provided in the soft market engagement document.