Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-06-03
Buyer: Leicester City Council
Country: UK
Region: Leicester
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85300000 | 85310000 | 85312000
Estimated value: 196000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Framework Agreements for the provision of Domiciliary Support Service (Leicester City Council and Leicester CCG-NHS).
Provide domiciliary support to various service user aged 18 or over to maintain their existing skills and/or acquire new skills and to increase and maintain their independence in daily living routines. The service will also provide integrated high quality, patient-centred health care services based on the principles of clinical governance. The Provider will ensure that they work in partnership with the Council and the CCG to reduce unnecessary admissions to hospitals and care homes, support hospital discharge and provide integrated and preventative community services. The Provider will require a local base within the boundary of Leicestershire to ensure service delivery. The framework may be reopened during its term at the discretion of the Authority for service need and the number of framework providers for each Lot may be expanded when the framework is reopened.
Provide domiciliary support to various Service Users aged 18 or over, usually those who reside in Leicester City and have been assessed as having eligible needs for the purposes of Adult Social Care or Continuing Health Care. The Service User profile may include, but not be limited to: older people;people who have dementia;people who may be physically frail;people with physical disabilities; people who are at the end of life; people with learning disabilities or other cognitive difficulties;people with mental health needs.
Leicester City Council working with Leicester City NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) invites Tenders for the provision of Domiciliary Support Service in Leicester City.
To provide domiciliary support to various Service Users to maintain their existing skills and/or acquire new skills and to increase and maintain their independence in daily living routines. The service will also provide integrated high quality, patient-centred health care services based on the principles of clinical governance. The Provider will ensure that they work in partnership with the Council and the CCG to reduce unnecessary admissions to hospitals and care homes, support hospital discharge and provide integrated and preventative community services. Service Users of 18 years and above who are placed using this Lot will include but not be restricted to Service Users with:
* Complex and enduring mental health needs. * A dual sensory impairment (e.g. visual and hearing loss). * Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD). * Severe physical impairment. These will be more complex cases, generally requiring a higher skill set of staff.
Leicester City Council working with Leicester City NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) invites Tenders for the provision of Domiciliary Support Service in Leicester City.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are SMEs. However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
The Framework Agreement will commence on 9.10.2017 and will be for 5 years with the possibility to extend for a period or successive period of up to 2 years at the sole discretion of the Council.
Also refer to Corrigendum Notice for changes or additional information: 2016/S 236-430322 published on 7.12.2016.
Furthermore, due to restrictions on the form, the information contained in Section V — Award of Contract has been split. Lot 1 information regarding ‘name and address of the contractor’ is divided into three sections.


Winner: Bluewood Recruitment Ltd
Award value: 196000000
Number of bids: 51