Integrated Community Equipment (ICE) Service

Description

Lot 1 - Integrated Community Equipment Lot 2 - Lifeline and Response Service Lot 3 - Self-assessment / self-purchase solution (Ask Sarah) Lot 4 - Assistive Technology Framework Warwickshire County Council (the Council) with Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are seeking to commission a single provider for Lot 1 Integrated Community Equipment. Warwickshire County Council is seeking to commission a single provider for Lot 2, a single provider for Lot 3 and a multi provider framework for Lot 4. Providers may submit an application for 1 or more or all of the Lots. Warwickshire CC and ICB will call-off from Lot 1 Integrated Community Equipment. Warwickshire CC contract manage Lot 2 Lifeline and Response Service and Lot 3 Self assessment/self-purchase solution and will call-off from Lot 4 Assistive Technology framework. Coventry and Warwickshire ICB reserve the right to use/call-off from Lots 2, 3 and 4 if required. Lot 1 - Integrated Community Equipment To provide a community equipment loan service across Warwickshire for adults, children and young service user in community settings, care settings and education settings on behalf of commissioning partners who have statutory requirement duties under various legislation to provide community equipment for service user with an assessed eligible social or health care need. Lot 2 - Lifeline and Response Service To provide a lifeline service across Warwickshire, on behalf of commissioning partners, to those service users that have an assessed eligible social care need. There will also be the option to offer the service to paying service users. The lifeline will be offered as a total package including the equipment, option to install, monitoring and response. Lot 3 - Self-assessment / self-purchase solution To provide Warwickshire residents with the opportunity to complete a guided self-assessment of their needs, in relation to maintaining their health and independence in and outside of the home, linking them to options to self-purchase AT to meet their self-identified needs and ensuring that they can support themselves' to remain independent, safe, healthy and well within their communities for as long as they can. Lot 4 - Assistive Technology Framework Warwickshire CC wish to commission a multi provider framework of Assistive Technology (AT) that can carry out objective assessments and provide long term support to Warwickshire's vulnerable residents in their home environments. Lot 1: Integrated Community Equipment This is an open procedure to commission a single provider the provision of Integrated Community Equipment. During the course of the contract period the range and scope of these services may be subject to modification and variation to meet the changing needs and requirements of the Council, potential changes in legislation and the changing demands placed on the Council by its customers. Additional information: The initial contract term will be for 5 years however the Council reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 60 months (60 being the maximum available extension period) at the discretion of the Council based on the contract performance of the successful applicant and available funding. Lot 2: Lifeline and Response Service This is an open procedure to commission a single provider for the provision of Lifeline and Response Service. During the course of the contract period the range and scope of these services may be subject to modification and variation to meet the changing needs and requirements of the Council, potential changes in legislation and the changing demands placed on the Council by its customers. Additional information: The initial contract term will be for 5 years however the Council reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 60 months (60 being the maximum available extension period) at the discretion of the Council based on the contract performance of the successful applicant and available funding. Lot 3: Self-assessment / self-purchase solution This is an open procedure to commission a single provider for the provision of Self-assessment / self-purchase solution. During the course of the contract period the range and scope of these services may be subject to modification and variation to meet the changing needs and requirements of the Council, potential changes in legislation and the changing demands placed on the Council by its customers. Additional information: The initial contract term will be for 5 years however the Council reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 60 months (60 being the maximum available extension period) at the discretion of the Council based on the contract performance of the successful applicant and available funding. Lot 4: Assistive Technology Framework This is an open procedure to commission a multi provider framework for the provision of Assistive Technology. During the course of the contract period the range and scope of these services may be subject to modification and variation to meet the changing needs and requirements of the Council, potential changes in legislation and the changing demands placed on the Council by its customers. After this tendering process has been completed and the contracts have been awarded the Council will be running further competitions from time to time for the same service. This is to allow new providers to apply to join the framework and to allow those who are unsuccessful first time around to re-apply. This process will include the same documentation as this tender (with the exception of dates etc). These competitions will be live for the period of 3 to 6 months. However, if the Council receives a high level interest for the service the Council reserves the right to close the competition at an earlier date. Additional information: The initial contract term will be for 5 years however the Council reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 60 months (60 being the maximum available extension period) at the discretion of the Council based on the contract performance of the successful applicant and available funding.