Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Fife Council
Fife House, North Street
Glenrothes
KY7 5LT
Contact
Pasha Keir
Telephone
+44 3451550000
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKM72 - Clackmannanshire and Fife
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00187
one.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
one.5) Main activity
Social protection
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Flexible Framework for the Provision of Care at Home for Adults and Older People
Reference number
SC0005
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Fife Health and Social Care Partnership (“the Partnership”/H&SCP) requires to commission a Care at Home Service from a variety of external care providers. Fife’s Health and Social Care Partnership is committed to personalisation and outcome-based services for individuals of all ages and abilities and is seeking to appoint a range of partner organisations to deliver outcome focused support to young people, adults and older people with a range of identified support needs throughout Fife, under a flexible Framework agreement.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £71,620,124
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 85300000 - Social work and related services
- 85310000 - Social work services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKM72 - Clackmannanshire and Fife
Main site or place of performance
Fife
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Fife Health and Social Care Partnership (“the Partnership”/H&SCP) requires to commission a Care at Home Service from a variety of external care providers. Fife’s Health and Social Care Partnership is committed to personalisation and outcome-based services for individuals of all ages and abilities and is seeking to appoint a range of partner organisations to deliver outcome focused support to young people, adults and older people with a range of identified support needs throughout Fife, under a flexible Framework agreement.
Any partner organisations must be able to demonstrate experience and commitment to innovatively work with individuals within existing self-directed support policies and approaches. They must also evidence strong skills in working with families of individuals.
Objectives for the Framework are to ensure that individuals have access to support that aspires to the highest level of quality and promotes the right of each individual to direct their own support. Key elements of success from desirable organisations include robust evidence of promoting and delivering:
- personal preferences
- fluctuating levels of required support
- an organic service to reflect individual’s achievement of outcomes
-continuity and consistency in provision of individual outcome focussed support
- creative approaches that ensure outcomes are
developed which promote ordinary lives
- innovative combinations of natural, paid and
technological support
- support that enables and supports approaches to risk
The Provider will provide practical and personal care over 24 hours a day and 365 days a year to the Supported Person living in their own home and will be in line with the service aims and objectives specified within this document.
The purpose of the Service Specification is to set out the minimum standards required to ensure that a consistent quality of service is provided to all Supported Persons who are assessed by the Partnership as requiring a Care at Home Service.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion - Name: Quality Only / Weighting: 100
Price - Weighting: 0
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
Fife Council may require additional purchases under this contract which have not been specifically detailed in the "specification" however any additional purchases will be in full accordance with the requirements of Regulation 72 of the Public Contract (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
two.2.14) Additional information
This Framework will be a flexible Framework which re-opens at regular periods throught the lifetime of the Contract.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2023/S 000-004778
Section five. Award of contract
Contract No
SC0005
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
1 June 2023
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 33
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 22
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 33
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 33
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Support and Social Care Network Ltd
62 , Longstone Road
Edinburgh
EH14 2BA
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM75 - Edinburgh, City of
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Time For You Care
40 Craiglockhart Avenue
EDINBURGH
EH141LT
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Avicenna Care Ltd
6 McIntosh Parade
KIRKCALDY
KY2 6RA
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
J.C.MICHAEL GROUPS LTD
31 Sandport Street
Edinburgh
EH6 6EP
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM75 - Edinburgh, City of
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
EXCEL CARE Pvt Ltd
2, GIB GROVE
DUNFERMLINE
KY11 8DH
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM63 - Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran & Cumbrae and Argyll & Bute
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Cera Care Operations Scotland Ltd
Lime Tree House, North Castle Street
Alloa
FK10 1EX
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Heart Link Health Care Services Ltd
Unit 20 , Dunfermline Business Centre, Izatt Avenue
Dunfermline
KY11 3BZ
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM - Scotland
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Call-in Homecare Ltd
2 ANDERSON PLACE, Bonnington Bond (Suite 70), 2 Anderson Place
EDINBURGH
EH6 5NP
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM75 - Edinburgh, City of
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
ACS Care at Home
93 High Street
Lochgelly
KY5 9AF
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Oran Homecare
Eden Park House, Eden Park
Cupar
ky115 4HS
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM - Scotland
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
LinkLiving Ltd
2c New Mart Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1RL
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM75 - Edinburgh, City of
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Scotia Homecare Solutions Limited
The E Centre, Cooperage Way
Alloa
FK10 3LP
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Balmoral Homecare Ltd
Helena Place, 5 Busby Road, Clarkston
Glasgow
G76 7RB
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM82 - Glasgow City
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Care1 Professional Services LTD
69 Buchanan Street , Suite 324
Glasgow
G1 3HL
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM82 - Glasgow City
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Avenue Care Services
Unit A , Glenruthven Mill, Abbey Road
Auchterarder
PH3 1DP
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Gibson Training and Care Ltd
Unit 14 Fife Renewables Innovation Centre, Ajax Way
Methil
KY8 3RS
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM72 - Clackmannanshire and Fife
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Capability Scotland
Osborne House, 1 Osborne Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 5HG
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Mitchell & Murdoch Care Ltd.
Office 9 Algo Business Centre, Glenearn Road
Perth
ph2 0nj
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
ION Care and Support Services Ltd
Axwell House, 2 Westerton Road, East Mains Industrial Estate
Broxburn, West Lothian
EH52 5AU
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM - Scotland
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Constance Care Limited
Suite 1 Munro Business Park, 15 Munro Place
Kilmarnock
KA1 2NP
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM72 - Clackmannanshire and Fife
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
1st Homecare
Unit 14B, Dickson Street, Elgin Industrial Estate
Dunfermline
KY12 7SN
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM72 - Clackmannanshire and Fife
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Kingdom Support and Care CIC
Saltire Centre, Pentland Court
Glenrothes
KY6 2DA
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM - Scotland
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland
3 Buchanan Gate, Cumbernauld Road
Stepps
G33 6FB
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKM - Scotland
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Intergrity Social Care Solutions
46 Kilncadzow Road
Carluke
ML8 4QJ
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Thistle Care solutions
Suite 9 Business Incubator Kirkcaldy, Myregormie Place
Kirkcaldy
KY1 3NA
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Gentle Hands healthCare limited
55 John smith business centre
Kirkcaldy
ky2 6hd
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Kenylink Services Ltd
Office 18/27 Kirkcaldy Business Incubator Centre ,Myregormie Place, Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy
KY1 3NA
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £71,620,124
Total value of the contract/lot: £71,620,124
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
Contract Start Date 01/06/2023.
(SC Ref:734046)
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court
Kirkcaldy
KY1 1XQ
Country
United Kingdom
six.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
Economic operators should approach the contracting authority in the first instance. However, the only formal remedy is to apply to the courts:
An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.