Homecare Bridging Service

Portsmouth City Council (PCC) is in the process of considering our options for a Home Care Bridging Service. We are looking to streamline the service to work innovatively.

The purpose of this engagement is to share with you the key requirements for the service and ask you to comment on our requirements and confirm if you would be interested in providing this contract. Any information a provider shares could be used to inform the final specification for the new contract.

General Overview and Aims

• oTo provide a short-term domiciliary care solution as a 'bridge' prior to commissioning a long-term care package
• oTo facilitate timely discharge from hospital at the point that a person is medically optimised.
• oTo provide a 'bridge' for a person living in the community where a long-term care package may not be immediately available.
• oProvide an opportunity for reablement and rightsizing as well as establishing long term needs.

Days/Hours of Operation

The service will be available from Monday to Sunday, 09:00 to 17:00 for referrals and 07:00 to 22:00, Monday-Sunday for provision of care.

However, this is purely a market consultation and is in no way an indication of the selection of your organisation or a guarantee of future work.

Following this consultation process, PCC will consider the appropriate route for this service.

Additional information:

Portsmouth City Council is currently in the process of undertaking a market consultation excercise for the following project - IHomecare Bridging Service.

The full details and ability to express an interest will be via our e-sourcing system Intend. This filepath will take you to the relevant area of Intend,

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portsmouthcc/aspx/Tenders/Current

Once on the page you can either scroll down or use the search function to find the relevant project.

Should you have any problems with the above link, please contact us on 023 9268 8235 or email: procurement@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No