Soft Market Testing for the Provision of Mental Health Accommodation

At present Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council have a variety of contracting arrangements in place for accommodation services which provide residential and supported living placements for people with mental health needs.

Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG are intending to undertake a procurement for a Mental Health Accommodation Framework which provides a clear and consistent approach to the market and enables the Commissioners to ensure capacity and quality of provision for this client group.

The opportunity is currently being shaped but is likely to comprise of :

Residential Services,

Complex Supported Living and

Supported Living

This offers the opportunity to review and re-design services with the aim of placing the Commissioners in a position to offer this opportunity to the market during 2019. Please be aware that this is a request for information at this time and is not a guarantee that this requirement will be advertised in the future. The purpose of this exercise is to test the market and shape what the requirement will look like if or when the opportunity is formally advertised.

Additional information: The purpose of this notice is to draw attention to a procurement that Cambridgshire County Council and Peterborough City Council intends to commence in July 2019.

It is anticipated that a separate contract notice relating to the supply of the above specified services will be submitted for publication to commence the procurement process.

All service providers should respond only to the contract notice when it is published.

Peterborough City Council is a public authority within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and all correspondence received will be dealt with in accordance with the Act.

The contracting authority intends to use the Peterborough City Council's eSourcing portal in this procurement exercise: SourceDogg.

You may wish to register on the Peterborough City Council's eSourcing Portal in readiness for the invitation to tender being published in July 201 . The URL is: https://secure.sourcedogg.com/