Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Devon County Council
County Hall, The Annexe, Topsham Road
Exeter
EX2 4QD
Contact
Mrs Jolene Roberts
Telephone
+44 1392383000
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKK43 - Devon CC
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
CP2079-21 Block Personal Care
Reference number
DN542345
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Devon County Council is interested in procuring a number of small block contract arrangements for Personal Care in particular locations within Devon.
There has been an increase in community social care demand and even though market sufficiency has increased there hasn’t been enough increase to meet demand.
Data has been reviewed to identify the locations and volumes of the block contracts required, with a sharper focus on electoral wards including run groupings and postcode breakdowns.
The proposed block contracts will have the following features:
• To provide the regulated activity ‘personal care’ in the individuals own home. This may include double handed care packages.
• The block contract will take precedence for new care packages to be referred via our Arranging Support Teams
• It is expected that packages of care commissioned through the short-term block contract vehicle will pass to a provider’s core-business on the personal care standard banded rate contract upon termination of the block contract arrangement.
• The block volume will be paid at DCC’s existing banded rates of £22.28 or £24.72 depending on the area the block covers.
• Each individual contract will run for three months from the date of its agreed start date.
Not in scope: Night sleep & waking night support is not in scope of this contract.
As a Key quality requirement, the Provider MUST have an overall CQC quality rating of Requires Improvement or above. Providers with any key line of enquiry currently rated as Inadequate by the CQC will not be eligible.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2021/S 000-018112
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
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seven.2) Other additional information
The Council has decided to exercise their right to abandon this procurement pursuant to conditions 2.19 and 2.22 of the Conditions of Invitation, as set out in the Invitation to Tender. We have taken the decision not to proceed with this procurement for the following reasons:
• Insufficient number of bids for all three electoral wards
• To allow the Councils to address some elements of the specification and terms and conditions as the current specification and terms and conditions has not achieved the desired outcome to increase capacity and to respond to the unmet needs within Devon.