Tender

Bath and North East Somerset ASC Support at Home Services

  • Bath & North East Somerset Council

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-037016

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-055815

Published 3 July 2025, 10:10am



Scope

Reference

DN780359

Description

Bath & North East Somerset wishes to establish a single provider Contract for the provision of ASC Support at Home Services. The procurement is run in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, Light Touch Regime (LTR) above-threshold, one stage tender.

The Support at Home Service will help people remain living at home, gain in confidence, and provide short term practical help after hospital discharge or following community or out-patient medical care to prevent admission to hospital.

The service will deliver high quality support to individuals, free at the point of delivery, accepting referrals from health and care services, and approaches by the public.

The service will provide an easily accessible front door via the Community Wellbeing Hub referral process and meet the needs of individuals across the geographical area of B&NES. It will actively engage with health, care and other third sector providers, promoting its services, ensuring that providers are aware of services offered. The service provider will be an active member of the Community Wellbeing Hub and similar local partnerships, to support cross working, referrals and information sharing.

The service will work in parallel to and in collaboration with other available services currently forming part of the discharge support pathway, which may be reviewed in future, including CWH Hospital Connectors and Help Pack provision.

Total value (estimated)

  • £1,232,000 excluding VAT
  • £1,232,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2030
  • Possible extension to 31 December 2032
  • 7 years

Description of possible extension:

Potential 2 year extension beyond the initial term

If contract extension is taken the contract expires 31st December 2032

The Contract Terms include a discretional uplift. The values have been uplifted to allow some headroom for any potential uplifts, which are not guaranteed.

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85310000 - Social work services

Contract locations

  • UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Enquiry deadline

25 July 2025, 5:00pm

Tender submission deadline

4 August 2025, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Award decision date (estimated)

30 September 2025


Award criteria

This table contains award criteria for this lot
Name Description Type Weighting
Quality

Technical

See published Invitation to Tender and supporting documentation

Quality 60%
Contract Price

Economic

See published Invitation to Tender and supporting documentation

Price 30%
Social Value

Technical

See published Invitation to Tender and supporting documentation

Quality 10%

Other information

Description of risks to contract performance

The Council has identified certain foreseeable but uncertain risks ("Known Unknowns") within the Tender, including but not limited to the following:

- changes in demand;

- adjustments to public sector funding;

- amendments to laws, regulations, or national policy (e.g., NICE, CQC, Care Act);

- technology failures or integration challenges;

- workforce shortages or recruitment issues;

- health inequality or access barriers; and

- emergencies or civil contingencies

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure

Special regime

Light touch

Justification for not publishing a preliminary market engagement notice

Market engagement commenced under the previous regime. A PIN was published under PCR15 and early market engagement commenced. The reference of the PIN is 20240911-000010.

A Planned Procurement Notice (UK3) was published (2025/S 000-014128) and a final engagement session was held, confirming the Council's intentions.


Contracting authority

Bath & North East Somerset Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PLVH-3287-JWJV

The Guildhall

Bath

BA1 5AW

United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 1225477273

Email: procurement@bathnes.gov.uk

Website: http://www.bathnes.gov.uk

Region: UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government