Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: Department of Health and Social Care
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71220000 | 71242000 | 71248000 | 71320000 | 71321000: Heating and ventilation design services

Technical requirements: Government seeks a lead partner to develop and deliver a national care transformation prize. The aim of this programme is to engage industry and the public around the future of social care- finding new innovative solutions that drive independence, enable the delivery of high quality care, and help put social care on a sustainable footing. We are looking to support innovative ideas in their route to market, including supporting design, development, testing and scaling.
The Department of Health and Social Care plans to release a tender, seeking the services of an experienced delivery partner to design and deliver a new care transformation prize. This procurement is currently at the pre-tender stage, the purpose of which is to engage service providers. We are giving all interested suppliers an opportunity to attend a market engagement day to:
— better understand the required business outcomes and advise where the current specification could be strengthened and updated,
— advise how to structure the requirement in order to maximise market interest, innovation and value for money.
Given the broad range of requirements outlined above, the delivery partner must have strong market knowledge across industries to generate interest, promote the competition, and target suitable innovators and businesses. They must have strong pre-existing relationships and experience in bringing together consortia to solve challenges in order to have the transformational impact required of this project.
This notice is for information only and the Department reserves the right to not proceed to tender. Additionally, the Department reserves the right to discontinue the proposed tendering process and not to award the contract. We are inviting interested parties to come to the department to learn more about the scope of the contract, and to discuss their ideas on an informal basis. We are keen to support creative and innovative ideas around how this programme can be successfully delivered.
To provide prospective suppliers with the opportunity to gain more information on the project, DHSC are holding a pre-market engagement day in Conference Room 1, 39 Victoria Street, SW1H 0EU on 10.5.2019 from 10:30 – 15:00.
We want to think big and are ambitious in what we hope to achieve. As part of the ageing society grand challenge, the government set out its mission to ensure that people can enjoy at least 5 extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035. Driving innovation in social care is a key part of this achieving this vision.
We know that our population is ageing, growing and diversifying. Over the next 25 years, the number of people aged 85+ is set to more than double, and the number of people of working age needing care is also expected to increase significantly. Whilst we must celebrate longevity, our extra years are not necessarily being spent in good health, and more of us are facing challenges in managing everyday life.
With the demand for social care growing, it is vital we ensure people have access to high quality care and support at the right point in their lives. Accessing care and support should not be seen as a last resort, and we want to raise awareness of the range of options available that are designed to keep people connected within their communities and living independently for as long as possible.
With the ageing population also comes economic opportunity, and we want the care transformation prize to drive investment into the market, attracting entrepreneurs, sector experts, and wider professionals to this growing sector. We want to bring together elements of industry that may seldom work together, encouraging new partnerships and consortiums so that knowledge, expertise and skills are shared.
The competition delivery partner will play a key role supporting government to drive innovations in social care through leading a multi-disciplinary programme of work including:
— industry engagement: we want to engage industry and reach out to new ecosystems of entrepreneurs and professionals beyond just the care sector. We want to draw attention and raise awareness of a sector ripe for innovative change and one with significant economic potential. Using the hook of the care prize, the successful delivery partner will promote and communicate the vision to different groups, potentially encouraging value added collaborations,
— public awareness: the high-profile nature of the prize will allow us to engage the public around a vision for the future of care. We want a delivery partner to proactively engage with care users, relatives, or potential care users as part of a wider narrative around social care and the sorts of choices individuals can make about their care,
— competition: at the centre of this programme is a competition, which will invite all types of entrepreneurs, professionals, organisations etc. to come forward with new innovative ideas that will help address some of the biggest issues facing the social care sector. We expect the delivery partner to lead on setting the process by which this will be managed, including competition structure and judging criteria, and ultimately deliver the competition process itself. The delivery partner will need to provide or draw in design and technical expertise: providing skills and resources to help shape the brief and assist with the evaluation of designs,