Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-05
Buyer: Scottish Borders Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000
Submission deadline: 2019-09-02

Technical requirements: Scottish Borders Health and Social Care Partnership's Learning Disability Service (LDS) intends to develop a local Shared Lives scheme as part of their commitment to offering a variety of accommodation and support arrangements to the people they support as per the LDS Strategic Commissioning Plan (2016-19).
Shared Lives is a model of care and support that provides innovative, small family-based support to adults with a variety of support needs. The provider must ensure they are capable and confident of providing the full range of services detailed in the specification.
The service required is the provision of a Shared Lives Scheme eligible for adults aged 16 + to end of life. The specification will describe the Shared Lives Scheme, the service to be provided, how the service will be delivered, monitoring arrangements, service level outcomes, key performance indicators and the role of the Council in generating referrals and supporting the delivery of outcomes.
The provider will not itself directly provide the care, support and accommodation to supported persons. The provider will recruit and approve Shared Lives Carers on a self-employed basis and will manage and ensure the proper delivery of a high quality service by the appointed shared lives carers. The responsibilities of the provider will include the appointment of a service manager and suitable coordinators and administration support.
The Council is seeking innovative approaches from the provider in the delivery and promotion of the service and the specification describes the minimum standards of quality required.
The provider will either have experience of delivering a Shared Lives Scheme or relevant experience that will enable them to develop a comprehensive plan to develop a Shared Lives Scheme. The plan should demonstrate an understanding of the Shared Lives model and identify potential risks and challenges in the set up and delivery phases.
It is considered that this service is covered by the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 under the ‘Light Touch Regime’.
It is a requirement of this procurement that bidders are — registered with and must maintain the necessary registration with the care inspectorate for a Shared Life Scheme for the life of the contract.
4B.5 — Insurance — It is a requirement of this contract that economic operators hold or can commit to obtain:
Accounts the last 2 years audited accounts or equivalent or a statement of your organisation's turnover.
This procurement is based on the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) on the basis of best price-quality ratio, where the price is 30 % and quality is 70 %. Please refer to PCS — tender for further information.
At request for documentation stage the provider with the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) will be asked to provide published financial statements which will be used in order to undertake an evaluation of the financial affairs of an organisation in order to provide assurance over the financial health and sustainability of potential providers and to identify any potential areas of risk (of service loss, reputational, financial loss, etc.) to the Council. Such financial evaluation may also include reference to movements in credit rating/limit, risk scores and any other financial appraisal information made by a recognised provider of company credit reports/business intelligence e.g. CreditSafeUK.
In the event that analysis of your financial position determines that additional measures are necessary in order to provide adequate assurance of your financial strength, you may or may not be required to provide either a parent company guarantee of bank guarantee.
To ensure the integrity and proper conduct of the procurement process, the Council may request, at any time, all or part of the supporting documents from an economic operator and any subcontractor, consortium members or other bodies, whose capability and capacity will be relied on to perform the contract.
It is considered that this procurement is covered under social and other specific services listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.