# Emergency Reablement Support & Long Term Care - COVID-19 Hospital Discharge

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Oxfordshire County Council](/buyers/oxfordshire-county-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Bridges Home Care Ltd\.
- Award value: £2,139,282
- Tender value: £2,139,282
- Award date: 20 November 2020
- Published: 15 December 2020
- Contract start: 30 November 2020
- Contract end: 6 September 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 89bf812b-e93b-4ccb-a0a0-b6240f23acab-400612
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f9230640-377b-4e0f-a2c4-32ce02c326c6

## Description

Use of the emergency procedure and use of the Negotiated Procedure without Prior Competition under Regulation 32\.2\.c of the Public Contract Regulations 2015\. The response to the Covid-19 pandemic continues to focus on whole system partnership working including the delivery of a system Home First team\. This team is focused on supporting people to leave hospital and return to their own homes, in line with the national modelling for hospital discharge\. The second covid lockdown has resulted in unforeseen pressures on hospital discharge capacity resulting from greater numbers of general admissions to hospital than in the previous lockdown period\. This resulted in the use of the emergency procedure for a direct award to four homecare providers, as a short-term measure to support the Home First Team to discharge people from hospital in a timely manner\. This is an interim measure that will be fully addressed by the new Living Well at Home Tender which will integrate Reablement and long-term homecare\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/89bf812b-e93b-4ccb-a0a0-b6240f23acab-400612)