Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Fife Council
Fife House, North Street
Glenrothes
KY7 5LT
UK
Contact person: Pasha Keir
Telephone: +44 3451550000
E-mail: Pasha.Keir@fife.gov.uk
NUTS: UKM72
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.fife.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00187
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
Social protection
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
PIN for the Re-opening of the Flexible Framework for the Provision of Care at Home (Window 1 December 2023)
Reference number: SC0005/1
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
This requirement is for the provision of Care at Home services for vulnerable Adults and Older People by providing high quality, personalised, outcome-based services for individuals through the delivery of a range of identified support needs.
This Framework (SC0005) commenced on 1st June 2023, and notice is to give notice of Fife Council's intent to Reopen the Framework to allow new Care at Home Providers to bid for a place on the Framework.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
12 000 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM72
Main site or place of performance:
Fife Wide
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Fife Health and Social Care Partnership (“the Partnership”) requires to commission a care at home service from a variety of external care providers. Fife’s Health and Social Care Partnership is committed to personalisation and outcome-based services for individuals of all ages and abilities and is seeking to appoint a range of partner organisations to deliver outcome focused support to young people, adults and older people with a range of identified support needs throughout Fife, under a framework agreement.
Any partner organisations must be able to demonstrate experience and commitment to innovatively work with individuals within existing self-directed support policies and approaches, and have sound experience and practice in maximising the benefits of individual budgets. They must also evidence strong skills in working with families of individuals.
Objectives for the framework are to ensure that individuals have access to support that aspires to the highest level of quality and promotes the right of each individual to direct their own support.
This is a flexible Framework which will re-open to new Providers approx. every 6 months. This is the first re-opening period.
II.2.14) Additional information
Tenderers should note that to improve the Tender completion and evaluation processes, the Tender Document (TN2) has been changed aesthetically, however the content is still the same, as the information that was originally requested in the appendices have been reviewed and now sits either within the body of the tender (quality questions) or the T&Cs.
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
18/12/2023
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Providers already awarded a place on the Care at Home Framework (SC0005) are NOT required to re-submit a Tender.
Please note this requirement is NOT for Supported Living, this will be advertised under a separate Contract Notice (SC0026)
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=735788.
(SC Ref:735788)
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
28/11/2023