News: Tender Advert - Older People Day Time Support
Older People Day Time Support Services in Central and North Lancashire
Countywide work is in progress to remodel day time support in line with personalisation, to respond to changes in demand and to plan for the future. Increasingly organisations providing day time support services will become reliant on income from personal budgets and self-funders paying directly for support. Lancashire County Council (LCC) are working with a range of stakeholders and organisations to manage this transition.
The vision for future day support provision is to have a range of options / menu, of building based and community based services with a focus on delivering activities and outcomes which customers would choose to buy ( either with a personal budget or via their own funds).
However the transition from current service models of traditional building based services may take a number of years to achieve. LCC are working with providers and customers to take incremental steps towards modernising the day time support offer in Lancashire.
As part of this work Lancashire County Council are inviting suitably experienced organisations to deliver the following contracts:
Rural Day Time Support Services North Lancashire
Community Links, Development and Befriending Services North Lancashire
Day Time Support Services Central Lancashire
Enhanced Dementia Day Time Support Services Central Lancashire (Withy Trees)
It is LCC's intention that the contracts awarded will start on the 1st October 2013 and continue for a 1 year duration with the option to extend annually for a maximum contract duration of 3 years with the exception of the Withy Trees contract which will commence on the 1st October 2013 and continue for a 3 year duration with the option to extend annually for a maximum contract duration of 5 years.
The contracts will be tendered in lots:
Lot 1: Rural Day Time Support Services in North Lancashire
Lot 2: Community Links, Development and Befriending Services in North Lancashire
Lot 3: Day Time Support Services Central Lancashire
Lot 4: Enhanced Dementia Day Time Support Services Central Lancashire (Withy Trees)
Potential providers will be invited to submit bids to deliver 1 or more lots (with the option to sub contract with other providers, if a provider has any intention to sub contract an element of the service(s) this must be clearly identified within their bid and to name the organisations that they are planning to sub contract to).
Further information is available at the Council's e-tendering website at www.lancashire.gov.uk/tendering
Providers wishing to tender for this service are required to complete a tender questionnaire for each lot via the e-tendering website.
Providers who are already registered on the e-tendering website will be able to access the tender documents including the questionnaire by logging in to the website. Providers who are not currently registered on the e-tendering website will need to go to the above web address and register as a new user.
Interested providers will have the opportunity to attend an information day on the 6th August; further details regarding this will be provided via the e-tendering website.
Tender Questionnaires must be completed and returned electronically via the e-tendering website by 10am on 30th August 2013.