Approved List for Community Support

This is a contract award notice. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is inviting expressions of interest from experienced Care Providers for inclusion on the Council’s Approved Provider’s List for the provision of services to adults with complex learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. The aim of this service is to ensure that people with more complex needs are supported in a way which enables them to : • Exercise their civil rights • Make ordinary life choices • Achieve as much independence as possible • Be included in their community in the same way as everyone else. Supporting the Council’s drive to increase choice for individuals and promoting the self directed support initiative, this Approved List, will ensure that service users and their families, are provided with a choice of experienced and quality approved care providers, whom they can contact, in order to arrange their specific care package requirements. The provider will need to either offer commissioned services directly to the user/representative or for those service users who do not wish to commission services the Council can commission the services on behalf of the service users. is estimated that the number of new packages being commissioned over the course of a year will range between 1-4 packages. The Approved List will be for an initial period of 1 year commencing on 1st August 2014, with an option to extend for a further year. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council welcomes submissions from all organisational types, including the Third Sector. If you wish to tender for the above requirement, please contact the Procurement Team, to request the Tender Documentation. Address Corporate Procurement, 5th Floor, Civic Centre, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 6ER. E-Mail procurement@southend.gov.uk Phone 01702 215000 Closing date for document requests is 27th June 2014. Completed tenders should be returned by 12 noon 11th July 2014.