Home Care and Continuing Health Care in Urban Areas of Gloucestershire (Urban DPS)

NOTE UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ROUND ONE OF 7TH MAY 2018 AT 10AM Gloucestershire County Council in partnership with the Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is commissioning Community Based Support services in the home for Health and Social Care within Gloucestershire. Our commissioning intention is to keep people safe, well and as independent as possible in their own homes for as long as possible.

This notice is in relation to establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to operate within the Urban areas of Gloucestershire (Gloucester district and Cheltenham district) to support and strengthen current provision within the two areas. The DPS will run for a period of five years.

To access documents please register on our e-procurement portal: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk. Please ensure that any application, questions and clarifications are sent through this e-procurement portal.

Note: The Services required under this procurement fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102), hence the Authority is not bound by all of the prescriptive requirements of the said Regulations. The Authority therefore reserves the right to follow its own modified version of the process prescribed under Regulation 34 of the said Regulations for admitting candidates to the DPS and awarding contracts thereunder.

Within each Zone, there is a requirement for a number of Service Types: • Home Care including waking nights, sleeping nights and live in care • Continuing Health Care • Continuing Health Care Complex

Providers can apply to work in both Zones if they wish or only one, and similarly Providers can choose which Service Types they apply for within each Zone. Providers do not have to cover a full zone if they do not wish to as over the course of the DPS, we want providers to collaborate to deliver all the care needs in a Zone. There is no limit on the number of Providers we will accept on to this Dynamic Rural Purchasing System.