Shared Lives Social Investment Soft Market Testing for Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Background

In 2012 Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead launched a Shared Live Scheme for people with learning disabilities. The Scheme now supports six full time placements and two regular short breaks, with a number of other people with learning disabilities accessing short breaks on ad hoc basis.

The Borough has been unsuccessful in recruiting carers in the traditional provider model. RBWM wish to develop a larger local carer base to enable us to grow our Shared Lives Scheme to offer a wider range of services that will include:

The Borough would now like to carry out market research on a social investment shared lives model. The provider must secure social investment to support the expanding of the Shared Lives Scheme in the Borough. This investment will be used by the provider to operate the scheme to recruit and train staff and carers to substantial grow the Shared Lives Scheme and ultimately successful establish new placements.

How to Express an Interest

If you are an experienced Shared Lives Scheme provider that can provide the social investment model please express your interest to RBWM providing us with the following organisational and service information:

This exercise will be managed via the Local Government Sourcing Portal- RBWM eProcurement system Bravo Solutions. Providers will need to register with Bravo Solutions to respond to this request and/or post any questions about the proposed model.

To register on Bravo solutions please follow this link: www.localgovsourcing.co.uk

Please post your responses to this request by 1st March 2016 at 13:00 on Bravo Solutions.

This request is for information only and will not form part of the evaluation process of the tender. Not responding to this Expression of Interest will not preclude you from viewing and responding to the invitation to tender.

Additional information: Ted notice also published: 48398-2016