CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

A Health and Wellbeing Framework for the Social Care Workforce

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Social Care Wales is looking to develop and introduce two aspects of what will eventually become an overarching health and wellbeing framework. They are as follows:

- A Staff Governance Framework across social care, setting clear and measurable standards to help drive improvement. The staff governance framework will outline the expectations of employers and employees in the employment relationship including support for health and wellbeing.

- Scope the guiding principles to an approach to workforce engagement and undertake a pilot of that approach.

These two initiatives will provide some of the building block that will inform our ambition to develop a workforce health and wellbeing framework ensuring health and wellbeing is built into the long-term infrastructure of the sector and its workforce.

This will build upon the proposals within the draft health and social care workforce strategy developed by Social Care Wales and Health Education Improvement Wales.

The draft health and social care workforce strategy identified that valuing the workforce, particularly the health and wellbeing of the workforce, was critical if we are to create a sustainable workforce capable of delivering care and support services.

The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly created a demand for the social care workforce looking to access support for their health and wellbeing, both in terms of self-help resources and anticipation that there will be a need to offer services capable of providing specialised and more intensive well-being support. Our current Health and Well-being website pages (on the Covid-19 site) has been the most visited from March 2020 – July 2020 and have been generated as a response to provide a range of support being provided to health colleagues, but not necessarily extended to the social care sector. This notion of parity was referenced clearly within the consultation on the health and social care workforce strategy.

For further information and details of the work, please download the specification.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=104260.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

The contract will run from October 2020 to February 2021.

There are two aspects to this tender specification, one of which is a guaranteed commission which is described in 3.1 and 3.2 of the specification. In addition, we are asking suppliers to also submit costs for the commission described in 3.3 and 3.4 which we may choose to activate during the lifetime of this programme of work.

There is an indicative budget of £37,560 (inclusive of any applicable VAT) agreed for the guaranteed element of this tender as described in 3.1 and 3.2.

We would ask suppliers to also cost up and submit their predicted costs for completing the optional element of this commission as described in 3.3 and 3.4.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:104260)

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice