2023/9943 Voluntary ex-ante transparency notice - Work for youths and activities for the elderly

Description

Holmestrand Municipality intends to enter into a contract with Generasjon M, which is a social contractor, a non-profit company with a spotlight on creating social effects. The parties would like to cooperate and contribute to an increased activity offer for elderly persons, create part time jobs for local youths aged 14 - 20 years, and create meaningful generation meetings for Holmestrand Municipality's inhabitants. The municipality currently has no equivalent service for its inhabitants, and the service will therefore be a supplement to the current activity offer. Lot 1: Description of the need Holmestrand Municipality needs to expand the variation of its activity offer for elderly persons who live in institutions or in sheltered accommodation flats, and for persons with reduced functional abilities in shared housing. We would like to establish an activity offer that gives dialogue and joint activity across the generations in order to create more variation in the activity offer. For residents in nursing homes, sheltered accommodation flats, and shared housing, dialogue and activity with youths will contribute to happiness and good moments, and also give opportunities to create mastering and meaning in the form of an exchange of both experiences and stories. As part of recruitment, the municipality would like several youths to be familiar with the municipal health and mastering services. In order to reach youths before they make their choices for sixth form college, we would like youths aged 14 to be given the chance to apply for these part time positions. The part time position will be Saturday jobs, every other week, four hours each time. The use of youths in an activity offer requires that the youths are given relevant training in communication with residents, including elderly persons, persons with cognitive deficiencies and dementia, reduced hearing or sight, and persons with reduced functional abilities. The municipality would like local youths to be recruited for this work. Giving youths the possibility of part time work not only gives gains in the form of recruitment, but also large gains for individuals. At the same time, the municipality would like this offer to be part of the preventive work aimed at youths. There is therefore a need for the municipality to give some guidelines in the recruitment process, so that youths are recruited who have been in contact with support agencies and youths from families with a low income in some of the positions. There is also a need in the municipality to get access to figures showing the effect of the total offer, through measuring the social effect. The municipality would like to measure the effect every sixth month, and there must be good goal achievement for both residents and youths already in the first half year. Description of the scope and duration Up to 24 youths will receive offers for part time work, four hours every other Saturday for up to three (3) years. The contract will apply up to and including 28 February 2027. Welfare and habilitation in the Health and Mastering Sector will offer jobs for youths. The youths will not carry out health work, but they must comply with the confidentiality rules. The youths can create activities and social meeting places for the residents, and they must do this on the residents' terms. Financing and payment The project costs are NOK 1,300,000 a year, in total, NOK 3,900,000 calculated over 3 years. The municipality has applied for a grant from SpareBank 1 Stiftelsen Østfold Akershus in order to partially finance the municipality's procurement of services from Generasjon M. This involves the foundation financing 50% of the total costs for the 3-year period, distributed as follows: Year 1: NOK 1,170,000 (90 %). Year 2: NOK 650,000 (50 %). Year 3: NOK 130,000 (10 %). Evaluation of the market Generasjon M offers a unique service that combines 2 main objectives; activity and well-being for elderly persons in nursing homes, and employing youths for meaningful and important work. A market survey that was held showed that only Generasjon M can fulfil our needs and requirements. The terms for a procurement without a contest are deemed to be fulfilled, cf. the Public Procurement Regulations § 13-4 letter b). The contract's duration will be from the date the contract is signed until 28 February 2027. The waiting period for the voluntary ex-ante transparency notice expires 10 calendar days from the date of the publication. Objections to the contract award must be reported by this date.