Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-07
Buyer: Isle of Wight Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85141200: Services provided by nurses | 85141210 | 85300000 | 98000000
Estimated value: 3185000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-11-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Isle of Wight Council (‘the Authority’) invites tenders from suitably qualified suppliers to join an Approved Supplier List (ASL) for specialist homecare services on the Isle of Wight.
The ASL shall comprise four categories and potential suppliers can submit a tender for one or more of the categories.
The term of the approved supplier list shall be 1 February 2021 (go live date) until 31 January 2029 with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years at the sole discretion of the Authority. The Authority intends to begin using the ASL for requirements as soon as the ASL goes live.
The Authority is seeking to commission, across the Isle of Wight, care and support services which will improve the person’s quality of life and maximise their long-term independence when they are living at home with dementia. The delivery of this service will require close working with other health and care providers, including personal assistants and voluntary sector organisations.
Every supplier appoint on to the ASL under this category shall provide an innovative, high quality service to support individuals, who wish to remain in their home but who require care and support to do so, supporting people with Dementia or other memory and cognition diagnosis of all ages.
• implementing individual support plans in a way that promotes independence and confidence whilst ensuring that all individuals are treated with dignity and respect;
• use a strengths-based approach that embodies the principles of person centred and outcome focussed support;
• providing the people they support with a regular care worker (or small team of care workers) who understand and can meet their health and social care needs;
• contributing to the self-care and management of those people suffering with longer term conditions;
• responding flexibly to fluctuating health and social care needs, within the boundaries of this contract;
• work proactively with health and care partners to maximise the persons outcomes and reablement goals.
The term of the approved supplier list shall be 1 February 2021 (go live date) until 31 January 2029 with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years at the sole discretion of the Authority. The Authority intends to begin using the ASL for requirements as soon as the ASL goes live.
The supplier shall provide an innovative, high quality service to support individuals, who wish to remain in their home but who require end of life care and support to do so.
This service is a domiciliary care service provided on an outreach or community basis and the service will operate and be available for referrals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year (including bank holidays).
• additional support, such as driving the individual to and from a medical appointment or accompanying them to a social event, as required.


Award value: 3185000