Health and social work services

Tender description

Care at home services tendered by Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council. The Council is looking for experienced, effective and dynamic prime providers to deliver its care at home services throughout the borough. The Council is intending to appoint one or more prime providers in each of it's nine care community areas who will be responsible for delivering the majority of current and increasing demand for services. It will also create a flexible framework agreement covering all care communities which will deliver a minority of services and may act as an incubator for possible prime providers who could be promoted to one or more care communities throughout the lifetime of the contracts and framework. Cheshire CCG's and successor bodies may be able to use the resulting contracts and framework at a later date depending on the development of integrated working arrangements with the Council and health partners. Annual spend for the Council will start at approximately GBP 11 m and is expected to rise throughout the term. The Council is operating this procurement under the light touch regime for social and other specific services, as set out in the PCR 2015, at Section 7 (Regulations 74 to 77) and Schedule 3. The Council intends to exercise the full flexibility granted therein to operate the tender and any resulting contracts and framework. Value of the prime provider contracts may be cGBP 90 m Value of the flexible framework may be cGBP 15 m As per lot 1. As per lot 1. As per lot 1. As per lot 1. As per lot 1. As per lot 1. As per lot 1. As per lot 1. See description in lot 1.