PROVISION OF DAYTIME SUPPORT FOR ADULTS WITH SOCIAL CARE NEEDS ? INCLUSION ON A LIST OF APPROVED DAY SERVICES

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to the provision of high quality services to enable people to live in their own homes. We are looking to refresh the list of approved services to:

Provide daytime support/activities for people who are eligible for publically funded care and support. This includes older people and people with learning disabilities we will be looking for providers who are able to offer a more generic approach.

The rate will be up to a maximum of £30.60 per person per day. Providers may wish to submit a price lower than this.

Tameside MBC will not be providing buildings from which these services will operate. Providers will need to consider this along with transport during the day.

The aim is for service users to experience inclusion, choice and control in their day time activities.

There will not be a guaranteed number of placements but commissioners, care co-ordinators and service users will have access to the list of approved day services from which to choose.

Additional information: Administratively, access to the DPS will be via three ?rounds? a year. A ?round? consists of: ? A period every fourth month where evaluation of submissions will be undertaken ? Award of any contracts and inclusion on the DPS or ? Feedback to providers whose submission does not meet the minimum threshold.

Evaluation of submissions will be by a series of panels, which may include representatives from locality teams and commissioning teams.

Key dates for this first ?round?:

? Tender opens 22 July 2016 ? Evaluation August 2016 ? Contracts award for approved list Early September 2016

Should you initially fail to meet the minimum thresholds of the OQ you will be able to re-submit completed documentation at any time via The Chest, mindful that your submission will be re-evaluated via the planned evaluation panel meetings in the next planned ?round?. Evaluation periods for the next three rounds are scheduled for: ? November 2016 ? March 2017 ? July 2018 (Please note these may be subject to change). The DPS will run from September 2016 through to September 2018, two years hence, with a view to it being reviewed and potentially extended for an additional year (and then a further 12 months after that; up to four years in total i.e. ending 30 September 2020).

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