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The Council also commissions additional nights from other external provider/s.\nOne proposal is to consolidate the majority of our residential respite provision into Provision A and Provision B and to only use other respite services for those clients with more complex health/clinical needs.  To do this, one of our proposals is to expand our Provision A service from 4 beds to 6 beds (plus one emergency bed) and align service delivery across  Provision A and Provision B respite sites, to deliver a single service across the two sites to achieve economies of scale.  \nWe are currently consulting on our proposals and exploring whether this 2-site provision (Provision A and Provision B) should be delivered by the Council or by external provider/s.  We are therefore only seeking information at this stage. \nThis request for information is to seek further views to inform the council's decision making and is not a call for a competitive procurement, any response provided by the market will remain confidential. Participation or non-participation in this market exercise is voluntary and non-binding and shall not prevent any organisation's ability to participate in any potential procurement process nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any organisation at an advantage in any procurement process. 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What would you consider to be a best value indicative cost for delivering this 2-site provision?\nPlease provide a range value cost to deliver this provision between £ xxxx and £xxxx per annum based on the assumptions detailed throughout this document. \nThe indicative range value cost should include:\n•\tall staffing costs, including training and annual/sick leave allowance. \n•\tall non-staff costs directly associated with running the service i.e. IT, telephones, clinical and domestic waste, travel, CQC registration, cleaning materials, equipment, maintenance of equipment ,consumables,  stationery, food, laundry, surplus\n•\tand all overheads/corporate management costs, that your organisation would charge.\n•\tPLEASE EXCLUDE BUILDING COSTS E.G UTILITIES, BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND RATES.\n2b). 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