Westmorland and Furness Council - Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Framework for the provision of Home Care Services

Description

Social care support during the day for people living in their own homes. Main place of delivery will be at the residence of the service user, within the Westmorland and Furness footprint. Providers who currently have call off contracts on the current Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Framework for the provision of Home Care Services, who successfully join the new framework, will have those call-off contracts transferred. The AQP Framework is available for use by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and future successor organisations. Lot 1: An Any Qualified Provider (AQP) 'framework' is to be set up to meet the needs of Social Care support during the day for people living in their own homes. An AQP framework will ensure sufficient capacity to meet demand for clients in Cumbria. The AQP 'framework' approach will appoint multiple organisations capable of delivering the specified service. The provider/s will be selected at time of need. They will register an interest to a commission, and selected according to published criteria. Fixed price per unit, please see procurement documents Additional information: Please note that the AQP does not limit the number of candidates.