CONTRACT NOTICE - Pathway 3 - Care Home based Reablement and Assessment Services in Leicester and Leicestershire

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (ML CSU) on behalf of the Commissioners NHS Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), West Leicestershire CCG, East Leicestershire & Rutland CCG is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver the provision of a Care Home based Reablement and Assessment Service in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR).

Reablement, in line with national directives, plays a significant role in the planning programmes for the 3 Local Authorities (Leicester City, Leicestershire County and Rutland County councils) and the 3 Leicestershire CCGs; East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, West Leicestershire CCG and Leicester City CCG.

The service is to be provided in a maximum of one care home located in either Leicester City or Leicestershire County and will accept referrals for people who are medically stable but are not yet able to return straight home following their hospital in-patient stay. People who can return home with support directly after the hospital stay will follow Pathway 2 (Home first with reablement services). The care facility will provide 14 beds as a minimum.

More information will be available in the service specification within the tender documentation.

The service will be commissioned via an open procurement process advertised to all providers which is proportionate to the value and complexity of the service and contract. The ITT will be live on the 1st February 2018 on M&L CSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00pm on the 23rd February 2018.

Estimated value for this contract is £503,048 per annum and the duration will be 3 years with an option of an extension of up to 2 years.

Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process up to a week before the ITT deadline, i.e. the deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is 17:00 16th February 2018. Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest and gain access to this procurement's documents and more specific information. Please see next page for instructions on how to register on the portal and page 3 for notes on the process.