Day Opportunities and Support for Older People and People with Physical Disabilities with Care Act Eligible Needs

Tender description

Staffordshire County Council (SCC) are recommissioning Day Opportunities (also known as Day Care Services) for both Older People (aged 65+) and for People with Physical Disabilities. SCC invited all providers and prospective providers to participate in the online Provider Workshops as part of its Soft Market Testing to review the existing arrangements and to look at how Day Opportunities for Older People and People with Physical Disabilities will be commissioned going forward: 12/06/2024 13:30-15:30 - What Good Day Care looks like (Quality) 13/06/2024 13:30 - 15:30 - Contract Model and Finances 20/06/2024 14:00 - 16:00 - Transport 26/06/2024 13:30 - 15:30 - The Tender Process. (Support will be available within this session for the Third Party Information Security Questionnaire) Your input as Day Opportunity Providers is essential. Your expertise and experience of delivering services will support us to develop a service specification, delivery mechanism and contract monitoring/quality assurance process that is effective, meaningful and puts people at the centre of all we do. Following each session, a Soft Market Testing Questionnaire was available on the Proactis procurement portal along with a Q&A document from the sessions. Suppliers are urged to register on our E tendering Proactis system https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login and express an interest in the opportunity, using the contract reference number IA2938 for this procurement process. The Council is consulting further on the proposed pricing structure and commissioning model. The Council will be holding an online Teams meeting with all interested suppliers on Tuesday 20th August from 10am - 12 noon. Following the session, a survey will be published and recording will be made available. To register for this session, please email oppdcommissioning@staffordshire.gov.uk and the relevant Microsoft Teams invite will be sent to you.