Home and Community Based Support

Description

This is a voluntary ex ante transparency notice and is intended to provide notice of Bolton Council's (hereinafter referred to as "the Council") intention to make a direct award of contract for Home Care Services under Regulation 32 (2) (c), to the nine incumbent providers, pursuant to the existing Framework Agreement. This direct award will run for a 14-month period starting from 1st September 2023 and will expire on 30th November 2024. The original opportunity to be admitted to the Framework Agreement was advertised in OJEU ( 2016-000009) and procured under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Further details of the services and the Framework Agreement are set out in that OJEU notice. Lot 1: This direct award will run for a 14-month period starting from 1st September 2023 and will expire on 30th November 2024. In 2015, the Council awarded a Framework Agreement with two lots to about ten providers following a competitive tender process. The initial term of the Framework Agreement was subsequently extended and is due to expire on 31st August 2023. There are currently nine providers who provide Services to the Council under this Framework Agreement. The intention of the Council is to go out to tender at the end of 2024, so that a new framework agreement will commence from 1 December 2024. At the same time as making these direct awards, the Council will also open up Q068 DPS Home Care Framework. (see section 11.2.14 below for further details).